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 Ingham County Board of Commissioners are debating internally two resolutions which they think will address a “dysfunctional” road commission.
Michigan is no longer alone in suing lenders and banks for failing to pay title transfer fees, as two counties in two other states have now filed similar lawsuits.
Michigan leaders in the fight against the foreclosure crisis reacted strongly Sunday to revelations that mortgage giant Fannie Mae appears to have been pushing banks to foreclose on homeowners rather than continue negotiating loan modifications.
A Massachusetts county clerk says a forensic examination of documents filed by Troy-based Orlans Associates, one of the largest foreclosure firms in Michigan, shows that the company has engaged in illegal robo-signing.
Curtis Hertel Jr., Register of Deeds for Ingham County, says that a discovery he made involving alleged fraudulent mortgage documents is now being investigated by both the Ingham County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI.
The Michigan Department of Community Health has announced it will advise local health departments using a controversial client acknowledgment form to change them.
In an editorial Tuesday, the Grand Rapids Press called on state lawmakers to fix holes and ambiguities in the state’s medical marijuana law.
A 2006 policy guidance from the Michigan Department of Community Health that places some HIV-positive people on a statewide list without recourse for being removed from the list has advocates raising concerns about its legality.
Enbridge Energy Partners has shut the Lakehead Pipeline 6B due to anomalies found in the line in Ingham county. The shut down came Wednesday night about 9 p.m., a spokesperson tells Michigan Messenger. This is the same pipeline that ruptured in late July in Marshall, spewing an estimated one million gallons of crude oil into [...]
With Oakland county reporting a syphilis outbreak, and Ingham and Kent counties reporting significant new cases of the sexually transmitted infection, advocates and health officials say the state legislature’s budget-carving ways are in part to blame.
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