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.
GRAND RAPIDS — Residents who oppose the privatization of Benton Harbor’s public lakefront park got their day in U.S. District Court on Friday, as Judge Robert Holmes Bell heard arguments over whether government agencies had acted properly when they approved the construction of a private golf course in Jean Klock Park.
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 [...]
BENTON HARBOR — Developers of a Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course under construction on public parkland are trying to grow turf atop Jean Klock Park’s Lake Michigan sand dunes and open a portion of the course for business before a decision is reached in the federal case that seeks to stop the project, where critics say 22 acres of dunes were swapped for inland parcels of land contaminated with industrial chemicals.
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