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.
On Friday Governor Rick Snyder and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation announced that Michigan will be the first state to benefit from funds made available through the Small Business Jobs Act signed into law last October. Michigan will receive $79.1 million as part of a new federal program designed to boost lending to small businesses. [...]
A new report on problems with privatized state economic development agencies singles out the Michigan Economic Development Corporation for excessive executive bonuses as well as questionable subsidy awards and resistance to accountability.
A new report that grades states on their disclosure of subsidies to business notes that four of Michigan’s five major subsidy programs now have some online recipient disclosure but gives the state a C- for overall transparency of the programs. The Good Jobs First analysis of Michigan subsidies finds that there is no public disclosure [...]
The remarkable recovery of the American auto industry continues with the announcement that the Big Three automakers will invest a collective $2 billion in plants in the state of Michigan, hiring at least 2,250 workers and ramping up production at those facilities. This is part of a deal with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation to [...]
The state’s tourism office has ended its Pure Michigan advertising campaign for the year because it has run out of money. State officials say that every dollar spent on tourism promotion brings in around $2.30 in state tax revenue, but a 39 percent cut in the Michigan Economic Development Corporation’s promotional budget has forced the [...]
An April auditor general’s report on the tax credits granted by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation’s Strategic Fund finds that some of the companies given millions in tax credits have not lived up to their job creation promises, and the board charged with overseeing the credits does not have an adequate system of monitoring for [...]
The wetlands program proposed by Republican State Sen. Patty Birkholz of Saugatuck Township last week would give the quasi governmental Michigan Economic Development Corporation a role in permit decisions, eliminate public hearings, and put the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to work scouting land for development by the cranberry industry, according to Great Lakes Blogger, [...]
Here’s Michigan Economic Development Corporation’s EcoXperience track in the basement of COBO Hall. (Click to expand the thumbnail picture.) My initial impression? It smells like rotting vegetation down there. In the picture, though, you can see one of the cool little Jetsons’ cars in the background.
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