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 University of Michigan Board of Regents is trying a new defense in relation to the state’s Open Meetings Act. According to a story on AnnArbor.com, the board is arguing in defense of a lawsuit filed in Feb. for an alleged violation of the Open Meetings Act, that the act is Unconstitutional.
Members of the Lansing city attorney’s Freedom of Information Act policy working group left a 45-minute closed-door meeting on Friday promising a renewed spirit of openness going forward.
LANSING — City Attorney Brigham Smith wants a working group being put together to develop new Freedom of Information Act policies for the city in the wake of a series of incidents earlier this year where he was criticized for being careless with private information. But the details of the capital city’s information disclosure guidelines will be hammered out in private.
If there is indeed a Detroit Free Press cover-up (as hizzoner claims) in Detroit’s everlasting text message scandal, it is one Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick won’t enjoy hearing about. He’ll probably scream it’s illegal. Since when, as the mayor claims, is filing a request for government information illegal, anyway? Here’s what I mean by “cover-up”: It’s [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan has filed a lawsuit against Salem Township in Washtenaw County, Mich., on behalf of two residents who were escorted out of a meeting of the township Board of Trustees for criticizing the township supervisor during public comment time. According to the legal complaint, which was filed against both [...]
[COMMENTARY] We are all taught that American government is supposed to be by and of the people. In short, government is supposed to be responsive to the people. But how can people demand accountability from government when the tools created to spread sunshine on the operations of those institutions, the people hired to run them [...]
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