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.
Opponents of the privatization of Jean Klock Park are hoping that all the attention focused on Benton Harbor as a result of the suspension of local government will bring support for the legal fight to take back the park.
Residents of Benton Harbor should not lose their democratic rights or their city parks just because the city is poor, Rev. Jesse Jackson said yesterday, and he called for people to speak out against Michigan’s Emergency Manager law.
On her show last night Rachel Maddow said that the takeover of Benton Harbor and the privatization of Jean Klock park is a perfect illustration of what current Republican philosophy has to offer American communities.
Rachel Maddow had a segment on her show last evening looking at the controversy over the Emergency Manager in Benton Harbor nullifying election results and forbidding elected bodies in that city from taking any actions whatsoever. She specifically cited the Michigan Messenger.
The Michigan Supreme Court has turned down an appeal by Benton Harbor residents who opposed the city’s move to turn part of its public lakefront into a luxury golf course.
Tom Walsh of the Detroit Free Press praises Whirlpool for building a new $85 million headquarters in the Benton Harbor area but only tells half the story. Yes, this is at least a temporary boost in the arm for the local economy as the office complex gets built. But the HQ itself isn’t likely to [...]
Benton Harbor residents that oppose the transformation of the city’s lakefront park into a private golf course are appealing a recent Court of Appeals ruling that OK’d the golf development. The Friends of Jean Klock Park warn that if the ruling is allowed to stand it will clear the way for further corporate takeovers of [...]
Opponents of the privatization of Benton Harbor’s Jean Klock park are considering their options following last month’s Court of Appeals ruling that an elite private golf course built on the city’s public lakefront does not violate the deed that granted the land to the public in 1917.
Benton Harbor, Michigan-based Whirlpool, a company to whose fortune U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) is heir, is telling workers in its Evansville, Indiana plant — which is about to be shut down to move the 1,100 jobs to Mexico — not to protest the closing of that plant or they may risk their future [...]
A three judge panel of the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that a Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course is a “park and/or a public purpose” and therefore does not conflict with the 1917 deed that conveyed a 90 acre stretch of Lake Michigan dunes to the city of Benton Harbor as a public park. [...]
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