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.
Federal regulators approved a controversial land swap and golf development without full knowledge of the contamination on land involved, opponents of the privatization of Benton Harbor’s Jean Klock Park warn. They are asking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to revoke the project’s permits while it considers the new information.
Developers of a controversial golf course in Benton Harbor are asking a federal judge to speed the proceedings in a lawsuit brought by area citizens who say the planned course involves unlawful taking of public parkland, the Kalamazoo Gazette reports.
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.
Berrien County circuit court Judge Scott Shofield ruled on Friday that Benton Harbor may lease 22 acres of Jean Klock Park for use as part of an elite Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course despite a 2004 legal settlement in which it pledged to retain the park for public use forever.
In the latest round of a long battle, opponents of a proposal to build a private golf course in a public park are suing the city of Benton Harbor. They claim that by approving the project Benton Harbor has gone back on a 2004 legal promise to preserve Jean Klock Park for the people of [...]
A controversial plan to develop Benton Harbor’s waterfront park as part of an elite golf course could be in trouble. Critics say it’s being pushed by “predatory” developers, won’t help the impoverished small town and might hurt low-income and minority residents. The city commission meets Monday to consider the proposal. The plan, called Harbor Shores, [...]
The Washington Post’s Kari Lydersen reports on the growing controversy over the proposed privatization of Benton Harbor’s lakefront park in “Depressed City Divided over Golf Proposal.” “Can three waterfront golf holes in a ‘Jack Nicklaus Signature’ course save Benton Harbor, a tumbledown town marked by factory closures, high unemployment, and years of simmering racial frustration [...]
Supporters of the Harbor Shores luxury housing development say the $500 million project will create jobs and spark the renewal of the city of Benton Harbor, now the poorest city in Michigan. But for two prominent backers of project, Republican Congressman Fred Upton and Whirlpool CEO Jeff Fettig, the benefits of the project hit closer [...]
The public comment period for a controversial, publicly financed luxury golf development in Benton Harbor has been extended by two weeks — until May 17 — by the City Commission. Benton Harbor is in the midst of a federally mandated public review of a lease proposal that would give developers control of a portion of [...]
[Ed. note: Michigan Messenger is pleased to welcome Hugh McDiarmid, Jr. as a guest; he shares this op-ed about Jean Klock Park and the proposed Harbor Shores development in Benton Harbor.] The massive Harbor Shores redevelopment project proposed in Benton Harbor would inject new economic vitality into a community that sorely needs it. But the [...]
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