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.
As state officials begin a probe into the foreclosure activities of several top national lenders, a Lansing family has been waging a battle with JP Morgan Chase in an attempt to straighten out what they call faulty billings.
Democratic Rep. John Conyers of Detroit, chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, has called on the Treasury Dept. to provide details of what lenders have done to help people avoid foreclosure since Congress passed a bill encouraging them to engage in voluntary loan modification programs. In a Sept. 17 letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy [...]
Voluntary loan modification programs are not saving people from losing their homes to foreclosure, U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr. of Detroit told a House panel on Wednesday, and the problem is acute in the Detroit area where 195 Wayne County homes are entering foreclosure each month.
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