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 Sierra Club, the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and members of Occupy Detroit are planning to gather at DTE Energy’s downtown office tomorrow for a demonstration against the company’s coal-fired power plants and its practice of shutting off utilities when people can’t pay.
Governor Rick Snyder, together with state utility companies and social service agencies, is warning that federal heating assistance cuts proposed by the Obama administration would have disastrous effects across Michigan.
The Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and the Sierra Club have teamed up this week over at Great Lakes Town Hall to examine the human and environmental cost of Detroit’s deteriorating water infrastructure. What they describe is not pretty.
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