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.
In Oakland county (MI-09) the latest poll shows incumbent Republican Joe Knollenberg leading Democrat Gary Peters 43 percent to 36 percent, but polling data indicates that lead could disappear as Peters’ name recognition grows through campaigning.
Does a presidential candidate who owns a couple handfuls of homes really understand economic hardship in America?
Gov. Jennifer Granholm said a move by President Bush will help many Michigan families keep their homes. She said this after Bush signed the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, which supporters say will help hundreds of thousands of Americans keep their homes while providing additional support for the struggling national economy.
Republican rep voted against U.S. House bill to slow housing crisis As the U.S. House was voting to ease the housing market crisis on Wednesday, Republican Rep. Tim Walberg was on the floor casting a dissenting vote. Walberg claimed he voted against the bill because it rewarded risky investments. But there could be another reason. [...]
Mitt Romney’s keynote address there Monday was ribbon-cutting for Farmington Hills headquarters housed in building owned by “collection agency” The new Great Lakes Campaign Headquarters for Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain’s presidential bid is located in a Farmington Hills building owned by Trott & Trott, a law firm that specializes in mortgage foreclosures, documents show. [...]
It’s a bright spring morning in May, but for a family of five on Detroit’s west side, things are looking dismal. The family — a disabled grandmother, a mother and three children under 18 — was evicted Wednesday, despite strong community support and a lawyer on their side. Thirty-Sixth District Judge E. Lynise Bryant-Weeks refused [...]
[COMMENTARY] I’m not wealthy, but I’m a member of the investor class. I’m also a consultant, which means in a roundabout way that I get paid to tell people where to put their money. And right now, I wouldn’t bet on a luxury golf resort in Michigan, not as a personal investor or as a [...]
Countrywide Financial, one of the nation’s largest mortgage companies, announced Monday an expanded foreclosure prevention program for subprime borrowers with fixed rate loans. Countrywide and consumer advocate organization ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) worked out new programs to include subprime borrowers with fixed rate loans who are behind on payments. Countrywide will [...]
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