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.
Social networking giant MySpace.com knew about hundreds of registered sex offenders but failed to remove their profiles from the system, alleges the company’s former top contractor tasked with identifying offenders for the company.
Attorney General Bill Schuette will appeal an Ottawa County court ruling that state regulators wrongly denied an air permit for a coal plant planned by the Holland Board of Public Works, the Grand Rapids Press reports.
While lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people saw gains at the federal level in 2010, Michigan saw the ugly side of anti-gay animus with straight pride celebrations in local schools, a rash of national and local teen suicides and the death of LGBT-specific legislation in the Republican-controlled state Senate.
This week the Obama Administration announced $47 million in new projects aimed at keeping invasive Asian carp from migrating into the Great Lakes. The 2011 carp action plan calls for new biological controls and increased e-DNA monitoring but does not include closing the locks in the Chicago waterway system.
The Missaukee Circuit Court has granted Attorney General Mike Cox permission to intervene in a lawsuit filed by Wolverine Power Cooperative which claims that the state did not have the authority to deny an air permit for a coal plant planned for Rogers City.
Tim Skubick, the dean of state political reporters in Michigan, addressed the Holland Area Chamber of Commerce yesterday and said that Rick Snyder won the governor’s mansion by default because Rep. Pete Hoekstra and Attorney General Mike Cox spent all their efforts going after one another instead of him. The Holland Sentinel reports:
Despite multiple investigations finding no wrongdoing in the killing of Detroit Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah during an FBI raid on a Dearborn warehouse last October, the Council on American-Islamic Relations of Michigan is filing a lawsuit against the federal government demanding access to unreleased documents and media from the raid. The Detroit News reports:
Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero, the Democratic nominee for governor, put the focus on the foreclosure crisis over the last couple days, pointing to a rash of fraudulent and unjustified foreclosures in reiterating his call for a two-year moratorium.
The Obama Department of Justice and Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox are unlikely to agree on much, but they are joining forces in a lawsuit against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan for collusion and market manipulation to maintain prices in the insurance market in this state. The Detroit News reports:
The mother of murder victim who stars in a campaign ad for the Schuette campaign invokes the age-old slur of “Jewish-owned media” in attacking David Leyton and gets support from Schuette rather than condemnation.
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