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.
One of the top items on the legislative agenda for Republicans in the Michigan House and Senate is a repeal of the personal property tax on businesses. If pass, that repeal could further decimate already strained local budgets.
Deep cuts to state-funded local revenue sharing that have forced local communities throughout the state to make major cuts to police and public safety programs have helped fuel a boost in violent crime in some cities, experts say.
On Monday the Ann Arbor City Council voted a new fire chief into command and welcomed him to a difficult job. Chuck Hubbard, a 25 year veteran with the fire department, will need to cut seven full-time firefighters by July 1 as well as reduce other operating costs.
East Lansing City Manager Theodore Staton writes on his official city website that GOP-proposed cuts in state grants for local fire protection could have a devastating effect on his and other municipalities as well.
LANSING — Progress Michigan and a host of elected officials, union members and others blasted Gov. Rick Snyder’s budget proposals in 10 separate press conferences across the state Monday.
A new poll commissioned by the Detroit Free Press and WXYZ-TV shows mixed results on the package of budget cuts proposed by Gov. Rick Snyder, with voters rejecting the K-12 budget cuts but supporting the cuts in revenue sharing.
Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, before a joint session of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees this morning, unveiled a budget plan full of deep spending cuts and new taxes on seniors, the poor and the middle class to offset a business tax cut.
As part of his proposed budget to be announced later this morning, Gov. Rick Snyder will seek a 33 percent cut in local revenue sharing, much of which goes to support local police and fire protection.
City council members in nearly insolvent Hamtramck will consider a resolution directing the city manager to investigate receiving emergency and other services from another government entity.
With the Republicans in charge of both houses of the state legislature pledging to make up for a projected $1.8 billion deficit next year with a cuts-only budget, new Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville (R-Monroe) says local governments are going to lose more revenue sharing.
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