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 Occupy Wall Street movement has arrived in Michigan with encampments in Lansing and Grand Rapids. Since Friday activists in Lansing have camped out in downtown Reutter Park despite a city ordinance that prohibits use of the park after 10 pm without written permission.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan has filed a Freedom of Information Act request for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement records relating to the detention and assault of an American citizen and a lawful permanent resident in Grand Rapids in February.
Cordlin Comer, a Grand Rapids area man who pleaded guilty earlier this year to failing to disclose his HIV positive status to a female sexual partner, faces less than a year in jail.
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann was in Michigan on Tuesday offering up her special brand of political rhetoric. Bachmann was in the state to stump for Robert ‘Bobby’ Schostak and his bid to become the chair of the Michigan Republican Party.
A federal judge has given the parties in a lawsuit between the state, homeless shelters and homeless sex offenders two weeks to resolve the matter, or he will issue a written opinion on the matter. The Grand Rapids Press reports that U.S. District Judge Gordon Quist heard arguments Monday in federal court on the case. [...]
A controversial deal to build a film studio in an abandoned manufacturing facility in Grand Rapids has run into another controversy. Hangar42 has been in the sights of the conservative Mackinac Center since Gov. Jennifer Granholm pointed at the deal in her State of the State address. Since that time, the center has raised issues [...]
Five homeless sex offenders are asking a federal judge to bar the state from prosecuting them if they stay in Grand Rapids area homeless shelters. The move came as part of a lawsuit by offenders and two homeless shelters in Grand Rapids. Those shelters are located in so-called Student Safety Zones, which officials have said [...]
Grand Rapids has been named the most sustainable midsized city in the nation by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Civic Leadership Center and the Siemens Corp. Despite Michigan’s manufacturing decline, the groups say, Grand Rapids is retooling by cleaning up contaminated former industrial sites and advancing a multi-organizational community-wide agreement on how to achieve sustainable [...]
In what may be an indication of the limited reach and political muscle of the nascent anti-government, anti-tax Tea Party movement, voters in three municipalities and at least two school districts in west Michigan approved various tax increase initiatives. The Grand Rapids Press reports that residents in Grand Rapids, Kentwood and Wyoming all voted to [...]
Communities across the state have been awarded a total of $10.7 million to be used to assess and clean up sites that are contaminated with hazardous substances and petroleum, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regional office announced today. Michigan is in desperate of funds to address polluted sites. Money allocated for environmental cleanup by a [...]
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