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 U.S. Coast Guard has at least temporarily blocked an application by the Detroit International Bridge Company, owned by Matty Moroun, to build a second span of the Ambassador Bridge. The Detroit Free Press reports:
DETROIT — A proposal to build a new railroad tunnel linking Michigan with Canada is making waves in a part of the city already grappling with the abandoned Michigan Central Station, the long-abandoned towering railroad station Detroit officials want torn down, historic preservations want to save and others see as a potential development opportunity and possible stop on an international high-speed rail line.
Two of Michigan’s newly elected Democratic congressmen are wasting no time raising loads of money to protect themselves from Republican challenges in 2010. New filings with the Federal Election Commission show U.S. Reps. Gary Peters and Mark Schauer have raised more than any other House member from Michigan in the three-month old election cycle.
The owner of the Ambassador Bridge has asked U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick of Detroit to move to strip any public money for a new international crossing between Michigan and Ontario from the proposed federal budget, the Detroit Free Press reports. Matty Moroun hopes to build a second bridge span linking southwest Detroit and Windsor. [...]
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