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 Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Meijer, Inc., in a lawsuit involving the retail giant’s illegal effort to recall officials in Acme Township, Mich. who rejected Meijer’s plan to build a new store there. The rejection of the appeal clears the way for a damages lawsuit against Meijer to proceed.
Retail food giant Meijer has been fined over $190,000 for violating state campaign finance law in its efforts to build a super store in Grand Traverse County. Michigan Secretary of State Terry Lynn Land announced today that Meijer has agreed to the fines which she said represent the maximum civil penalty for the campaign-finance violations [...]
Efforts by Grand Traverse County Prosecutor Alan Schneider to investigate apparent campaign finance violations by grocery giant Meijer hit an obstacle Friday when Judge Phillip Rogers of the 13th Circuit Court ruled that only the Secretary of State has authority to investigate violations of the Michigan Campaign Finance Act. In February Meijer admitted that it [...]
A little-noticed change in the standards for proving perjury in Michigan may impact grocery giant Meijer, according to a story in the Traverse City Record Eagle. Before the Michigan Supreme Court’s 2004 ruling on perjury, prosecutors had to prove that a lie was material to the case. Now lying under oath in and of itself constitutes [...]
Meijer, the Grand Rapids-based grocery chain, announced today that an internal investigation has determined that the company “likely violated campaign-finance and -reporting laws.” Today’s announcement was based on findings by John Pirich, a campaign-finance expert hired by Meijer to investigate claims that it paid a public relations firm to organize a February recall campaign in [...]
Increasing stress on natural resources and declining public funds for preservation made for a rough year for the environment. Water levels throughout the Great Lakes approached all-time lows, and people began to associate this with global climate change. Samples taken from the Saginaw River revealed the most concentrated dioxin contamination ever recorded, a whistle-blower lawsuit [...]
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