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 treasurer for Lansing Mayor Virgil Bernero’s campaign committee for his bid for governor owes $91,000 in overdue property taxes, reports the Lansing State Journal. Charles Moore tells the paper he has made arrangements to pay the money owed, but has “been a victim of the economy.”
MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP — The room where the Haslett Board of Education meets has 116 seats, the majority of which sit empty during most of their bimonthly meetings. But Monday night was no ordinary school board meeting — it was the first meeting after revelations of drunk shaming, drug use and alleged sexual assault by a group of teachers divided this upscale mid-Michigan community near East Lansing.
Saying that the details revealed in an investigation of an Ingham County teacher’s “drunk shaming” are “shocking to everybody,” State Rep. Mark Meadows, a Democrat from East Lansing, says that some sort of action needs to be taken. The Haslett Public Schools “need to do something about this,” Meadows said in lengthy interview Tuesday morning. “This kind of undermines [the school district's] credibility.”
MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP — An incident of “drunk shaming” and drug use among teachers from the Haslett Public Schools has drawn the attention of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, a spokesman says. “We were already involved and watching.”
MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP — A police report that details an evening of troubling incidents among a group of Haslett Public Schools teachers involving drug use and “drunk shaming” is prompting questions about the teachers’ behavior and institutional accountability in this suburban community near East Lansing.
Marcus Cheatham, spokesperson for the Ingham County Health Department, said Thursday that an outbreak of syphilis in the county appears to be under control. Michigan Messenger reported in May that Ingham County had classified an alarming increase of cases of the age-old sexually transmitted infection as an “outbreak.” At that time, the county had 10 [...]
The lawsuit Ingham County Commissioner Mark Grebner recently filed against three college conservative activists in the state is the latest incident in a developing pattern of scandals involving young Republican leaders and their online activities across the country.
LANSING — State Rep. Rick Jones came out swinging Monday in an attempt to end a controversial lease agreement for a new Michigan State Police headquarters in the state capital, calling the project “a scheme,” and said if the state moves ahead with the lease agreement, the new building downtown will be “a monument to stupidity.”
LANSING — Incumbent Mayor Virgil Bernero opened his re-election campaign headquarters Friday afternoon. Surrounded by campaign staff, supporters and city officials at his new offices, located in house on busy Michigan Avenue, Bernero touted what he said were his successes in the past four years.
LANSING — With the state legislature and Gov. Jennifer Granholm celebrating the passage of the Home Foreclosure Prevention Act, the crisis facing homeowners struggling to stay in their homes is far from over. And while sheriff-sale announcements and bank property for sale signs are obvious indicators of homeowners in trouble, it is far more difficult to spot those who were turned onto bad mortgages or manipulated by tactics that some call fraudulent, a festering problem across Michigan that’s been hitting one family in the state capital particularly hard.
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