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.
On the eve of a planned demonstration against the suspension of local rule in Benton Harbor, Free Press business columnist Tom Walsh warns that the hassles and embarrassment of recent political tumult may drive the locally-headquartered Whirlpool corporation out of town.
Opponents of the privatization of Jean Klock Park are hoping that all the attention focused on Benton Harbor as a result of the suspension of local government will bring support for the legal fight to take back the park.
Benton Harbor-based Whirlpool Corp. is closing a factory in that economically-depressed city, eliminating 216 jobs. I sure am glad we gave Whirlpool $19 million in stimulus money to help create jobs, aren’t you? But not to worry. Those newly unemployed workers can always apply for minimum wage jobs at the Harbor Shores private golf course, [...]
Benton Harbor’s relationship to the development company that turned its public waterfront into part of a golf course is like a bad marriage, City Commissioner Duane L. Seats II said Monday as he introduced a resolution withdrawing city support for the mixed use luxury development that has received millions in grants from the state. The [...]
Benton Harbor, Michigan-based Whirlpool, a company to whose fortune U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) is heir, is telling workers in its Evansville, Indiana plant — which is about to be shut down to move the 1,100 jobs to Mexico — not to protest the closing of that plant or they may risk their future [...]
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. [...]
A federal judge in Grand Rapids has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed the National Park Service and Army Corps of Engineers failed to follow environmental laws when they allowed Benton Harbor’s Jean Klock to be developed as a private Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course. Opponents of the conversion of the public park say that a [...]
Benton Harbor residents will need to pay $75 to view Lake Michigan from atop the dunes in the city’s lake front Jean Klock Park. WJSM news reports that a panel that oversees policy at the Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course now partially built in the public park has approved a fee schedule for use of [...]
Former President George W. Bush is expected to make his first major post-presidency speech this evening in Benton Harbor, one of Michigan’s poorest cities. Bush’s visit is sponsored by the Economic Development Club of Southwest Michigan which was founded by Louis Upton, the co-founder of the locally-headquartered Whirlpool Corp. and grandfather of longtime local Republican [...]
Developers of a Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course that is slated to take over much of Benton Harbor’s public lakefront park say that nine holes of the course will be completed this summer, the Herald Palladium reports.
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