I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
The Obama administration believes that in order to right the ship of the housing market, the federal government is going to have to stay actively involved.
Michigan continues with the rather dubious distinction of being one of the ten states hit hardest by foreclosures. Worse? More than half of all foreclosures nationwide came from California, Florida, Arizona, Illinois and Michigan.
The foreclosure crisis may have slipped off the front pages, but it’s not gone. The Kalamazoo Gazette reports that foreclosure is up 70 percent over last year. And making matters worse in Kalamazoo, many of the people facing foreclosure are also victims of scam artists.
WASHINGTON — A ban on foreclosure sales and evictions from houses owned by mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which began as a high-profile effort just before the holidays to keep people in their homes as the government tried to come up with homeowner rescue plans, is over. Spokesmen for Fannie Mae and Freddie [...]
A bill to allow bankruptcy judges to rewrite mortgages for people facing foreclosure was approved by the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday. In introducing the legislation bill sponsor Democratic Rep. John Conyers Jr. of Detroit said: Detroit has had more than 100,000 foreclosures over the last three years. And they are continuing at the rate of [...]
The Michigan House today passed the “Taxpayer Home Protection Act,” a bill that would help homeowners at risk of losing their homes to tax foreclosure get extensions and exemptions on their property taxes. It would also change the law so that nonpayment of utility bills would no longer trigger foreclosures.
The Macomb County Republican Party chair who told Michigan Messenger earlier this week that Republicans planned to challenge voters at the polls using a list of foreclosed homes has changed his story.
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