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.
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The director of Michigan’s Economic Recovery office said this week that the state does not have the capacity to post comprehensive information about how it spends federal stimulus money on its American Recovery and Reinvestment Act website. The comments by Economic Recovery Office Director Leslee Fritz were in response to a recent report by the Washington, D.C.-based Good Jobs First that criticized Michigan and other states for failing to use the Internet to effectively disclosure Recovery Act spending.
Slate magazine’s The Big Money blog profiles the head of the Michigan Recovery Office — aka “stimulus czar” — Leslee Fritz. Fritz, formerly an adviser to Gov. Jennifer Granholm, is in charge of overseeing the spending of money allocated to the state in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and complying with the law’s [...]
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