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.
Michigan is no longer alone in suing lenders and banks for failing to pay title transfer fees, as two counties in two other states have now filed similar lawsuits.
It’s been less than three weeks since Pontiac Emergency Manager Michael Stampfler outsourced city police patrols to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Dept. and already he is trying to renegotiate the contract.
An Oakland County Commissioner and former mayor of Ferndale was forced to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination during the trial of a medical marijuana patient last week.
Pontiac could end up with gaps in police service as a result of contract changes approved by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners this week.
A Massachusetts county clerk says a forensic examination of documents filed by Troy-based Orlans Associates, one of the largest foreclosure firms in Michigan, shows that the company has engaged in illegal robo-signing.
In an interview yesterday state Treasurer Andy Dillon dismissed the idea that Pontiac will face bankruptcy unless it is absorbed by Oakland County.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette has chimed in on the allegedly forged mortgage foreclosure documents uncovered in Ingham County.
With Oakland county reporting a syphilis outbreak, and Ingham and Kent counties reporting significant new cases of the sexually transmitted infection, advocates and health officials say the state legislature’s budget-carving ways are in part to blame.
Fears that proposed water protection legislation will limit the rights of homeowners and farmers led an Oakland County board to recommend a resolution opposing HB 5319, a bill that would declare water a public trust resource that must be managed for the benefit of all.
Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, one of Michigan’s most high-profile elected Republicans, told an audience earlier today that he’s planning on seeking another term in 2012. Barely through the first-year of his current four-year term — his fifth term overall — Patterson elaborated on his future plans at a Leadership Oakland breakfast meeting, according [...]
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