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.
A federal judge in Grand Rapids has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed the National Park Service and Army Corps of Engineers failed to follow environmental laws when they allowed Benton Harbor’s Jean Klock to be developed as a private Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course. Opponents of the conversion of the public park say that a [...]
The private golf-centered luxury housing development that took over Benton Harbor’s public lakefront as part of an economic development scheme endorsed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm received $12.6 million in new tax credits last week, even though a state board has begun pursuing the company for failed commitments.
BENTON HARBOR — While this southwest Michigan city’s new Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course opened this summer only partially constructed, more than 2,500 visitors have hit the links in what used to be the public dunes along Lake Michigan. And just as expanded operations ramp up into the 2010 season, concerns about the privatization of public parkland in a poverty-stricken community are finding an audience in some powerful venues.
GRAND RAPIDS — Residents who oppose the privatization of Benton Harbor’s public lakefront park got their day in U.S. District Court on Friday, as Judge Robert Holmes Bell heard arguments over whether government agencies had acted properly when they approved the construction of a private golf course in Jean Klock Park.
Recently cleared of a 3-10 year prison sentence imposed for criticizing a Berrien County judge, Rev. Edward Pinkney of Benton Harbor is organizing a boycott and picket of Harbor Shores, the controversial private golf course under construction on the city’s public parkland along Lake Michigan. In an interview on Monday, Pinkney said that the Black [...]
Benton Harbor residents will need to pay $75 to view Lake Michigan from atop the dunes in the city’s lake front Jean Klock Park. WJSM news reports that a panel that oversees policy at the Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course now partially built in the public park has approved a fee schedule for use of [...]
BENTON HARBOR — Developers of a Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course under construction on public parkland are trying to grow turf atop Jean Klock Park’s Lake Michigan sand dunes and open a portion of the course for business before a decision is reached in the federal case that seeks to stop the project, where critics say 22 acres of dunes were swapped for inland parcels of land contaminated with industrial chemicals.
Developers of a Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course that is slated to take over much of Benton Harbor’s public lakefront park say that nine holes of the course will be completed this summer, the Herald Palladium reports.
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.
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