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.
As predicted yesterday, a state Senate subcommittee has voted to eliminate the Michigan Promise scholarship, which offers families up to $4,000 to pay for college. There are nearly 100,000 people qualified to get those scholarships in the fall and if this vote is sustained by the legislature and signed by Granholm, they won’t be getting [...]
Two Democratic leaders in the Michigan legislature are speaking out against proposed cuts in the Michigan Promise educational grants, calling such cuts short sighted. They issued a press release which said:
With the state facing revenue shortfalls and widening deficit projections for the next few years, the Michigan Promise grants that help students attend college may be getting the ax:
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