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.
A three judge panel of the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that a Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course is a “park and/or a public purpose” and therefore does not conflict with the 1917 deed that conveyed a 90 acre stretch of Lake Michigan dunes to the city of Benton Harbor as a public park. [...]
BENTON HARBOR — While this southwest Michigan city’s new Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course opened this summer only partially constructed, more than 2,500 visitors have hit the links in what used to be the public dunes along Lake Michigan. And just as expanded operations ramp up into the 2010 season, concerns about the privatization of public parkland in a poverty-stricken community are finding an audience in some powerful venues.
Recently cleared of a 3-10 year prison sentence imposed for criticizing a Berrien County judge, Rev. Edward Pinkney of Benton Harbor is organizing a boycott and picket of Harbor Shores, the controversial private golf course under construction on the city’s public parkland along Lake Michigan. In an interview on Monday, Pinkney said that the Black [...]
With construction underway on Harbor Shores, a controversial publicly supported private golf-based resort in Benton Harbor, the president of the local economic development group points out that the service industry jobs created by the project cannot be outsourced.
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