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.
Residents in the city of Flint have discovered a use for the abandoned lots in their neighborhoods — community gardens. The problem, according to a story in the Flint Journal, is that the city has no zoning rules or ordinances to permit the development of agricultural initiatives within the city limits.
The final federal approvals have been granted for a controversial plan to turn Benton Harbor’s lakefront park into part of a privately owned golf course, and a citizen’s group that is trying to preserve the public park is anxiously awaiting a Friday court hearing that could either speed the project or stop it.
A planned expansion of Detroit Metropolitan Airport is threatening to uproot thousands of people and dozens of businesses, but local officials and residents are fighting back. The Wayne County Airport Authority (WCAA) is in the beginning stages of a project that would add an additional runway to the airport, allowing the facility to serve more [...]
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