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.
The Michigan Department of Community Health today confirmed the death of a 28-year-old Madison Heights police officer, and Macomb County resident, from inluenza A(H1N1). The officer becomes the state’s second confirmed death from the virus, once called swine flu.
Madison Heights School District Superintendent John Telford quit his job Monday night, saying he’s been pushed out by racist residents and school board members. Telford took over the red-ink drenched district in Oakland County in March as an interim superintendant and proposed recruiting students from Detroit to bring more per-pupil aid from the state to [...]
Wait and see: That’s what law enforcement agencies across Michigan are doing when it comes to the state’s new medical marijuana law. At the moment, there is no reason to believe that an incident which occurred in March where a Madison Heights couple was arrested for growing marijuana they said was for medical purposes should be viewed as common law enforcement policy across the state, said Tom Hendrickson, executive director of the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police.
MADISON HEIGHTS — The local school district will not allow more children from outside its boundaries to attend school, ending a month-long controversy to bring Detroit students into the Oakland County suburb to help close a projected $1.5 million deficit next year.
Madison Heights Mayor Ed Swanson is backing his superintendent’s controversial request to bring hundreds of Detroit students into the city’s schools. Swanson said at a Thursday city council meeting that he supports raising the cap on school-of-choice students to allow more students to enroll in the city’s schools, the Free Press reported. Superintendent John Telford, [...]
MADISON HEIGHTS — Usually residents of cash-strapped communities welcome more money, but Madison Heights residents don’t when it means bringing Detroit public school students into their district. That was the majority opinion given, with outbursts and applause, at a school board meeting Wednesday night at Madison High School, a gathering where issues of race were unavoidable despite the insistence of many in attendance that skin color had nothing to do with their opposition to a plan to attract new students from Detroit.
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