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 private golf-centered luxury housing development that took over Benton Harbor’s public lakefront as part of an economic development scheme endorsed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm received $12.6 million in new tax credits last week, even though a state board has begun pursuing the company for failed commitments.
BENTON HARBOR — While this southwest Michigan city’s new Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course opened this summer only partially constructed, more than 2,500 visitors have hit the links in what used to be the public dunes along Lake Michigan. And just as expanded operations ramp up into the 2010 season, concerns about the privatization of public parkland in a poverty-stricken community are finding an audience in some powerful venues.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has approved a controversial plan to build a Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course on Benton Harbor’s waterfront park. This is the second time the state has approved the project, known as Harbor Shores, which was re-proposed after the National Park Service (NPS) rejected the plan last year. State [...]
Julie Weiss had returned to Benton Harbor from Chicago to look after her parents and was walking on the beach at Jean Klock Park in September 2006 when she came upon a sign that said, “18th tee.” That’s when the 54-year-old musician and former financial services worker learned that part of the city’s Lake Michigan [...]
The National Park Service has rejected a proposal to transfer Jean Klock park in Benton Harbor into private hands for development as a golf course. The decision is being celebrated by residents of Benton Harbor who have fought to preserve the 73 acre lakeside park that has belonged to the city since 1917. In a [...]
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