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.
Lansing area media report 34 positions have been eliminated at the Lansing State Journal. Among the positions cut was long-time entertainment reporter Mike Hughes, and most of the staff of the Gannett News “independent” entertainment newspaper Noise, according to The City Pulse today.
Gannett Newspapers, which own Michigan papers including the Lansing State Journal, The Detroit Free Press and the Battle Creek Enquirer, cut its Michigan workforce. In a story yesterday, the Enquirer announced a cut of one-half of its workforce with 50 of its 105 employees receiving pink slips. The cuts came in the paper’s production/printing departments [...]
While Michigan voters overwhelmingly approved a medical marijuana measure Nov. 4, how that law is being implemented by the state and local authorities is a bit different.
The debut of our new design gives us the perfect chance to introduce ourselves to you — something we haven’t had a formal occasion to do since our quiet, curious launch almost a full year ago, last September.
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