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 Department of Labor Statistics, part of the federal Labor Department, has released its annual assessment of work related benefits in the U.S. For the first time, the department included benefits offered to domestic partners.
State Rep. Kate Segal (D-Battle Creek) issued a statement Tuesday slamming Hallmark Industrial for allegedly employing undocumented workers for the oil spill clean up in Calhoun County. Michigan Messenger broke the story about the undocumented workers Monday. In that story, Messenger also documented conditions at various work sites the undocumented workers were working at. Those [...]
Congressman Mark Schauer (D-Bedford Township) Tuesday called for investigations into allegations that Hallmark Industrial hired undocumented workers for clean up jobs on the oil spill in Calhoun County. The call came in letters to the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson and Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis. A Michigan Messenger investigation over the weekend uncovered [...]
Ed Montgomery, the executive director of the White House Council on Automotive Communities and Workers, is leaving the Obama administration. He will take over as the Dean of Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute. He is scheduled to start Aug. 15. Montgomery was appointed by President Barack Obama to lead the revitalization of the nation’s collapsing [...]
LANSING — Officials from the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth (DELEG) huddled with some 1,400 business owners, students and residents to discuss the future of green industry in a state known more for making autos that consume fossil fuel. Van Jones, recently named a special adviser to the White House Council on Environmental Quality, delivered a keynote address “Green Today, Jobs Tomorrow” at the gathering.
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