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 new report that grades states on their disclosure of subsidies to business notes that four of Michigan’s five major subsidy programs now have some online recipient disclosure but gives the state a C- for overall transparency of the programs. The Good Jobs First analysis of Michigan subsidies finds that there is no public disclosure [...]
The director of Michigan’s Economic Recovery office said this week that the state does not have the capacity to post comprehensive information about how it spends federal stimulus money on its American Recovery and Reinvestment Act website. The comments by Economic Recovery Office Director Leslee Fritz were in response to a recent report by the Washington, D.C.-based Good Jobs First that criticized Michigan and other states for failing to use the Internet to effectively disclosure Recovery Act spending.
State sales tax is supposed to pay for public services, but according to a report released this week by the Washington, D.C.-based economic policy group Good Jobs First, a little-known state tax policy allows retailers to keep a cut of the sales tax they collect. Nationwide over a billion dollars in state tax revenue is [...]
In “Take Your Poison: Hemlock Semiconductor Demands Costly New Subsidies From Michigan,” Jeff McCourt of Good Jobs First takes a critical look at a $357 million tax break for Hemlock Semiconductor, a joint venture of Dow Corning and two Japanese firms. The tax break is tied to energy bills pending in the legislature and is [...]
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