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.
“Both the House and Senate bills include a strong new consumer financial protection agency and it will regulate them (payday lenders),” one consumer advocate said.
When states from New Mexico to Illinois passed payday reform laws over the past few years, it seemed as if the movement to curb short-term loans with interest rates that sometimes reached 400 percent or more was gaining steam. In Ohio and Arizona, voters even took to the polls to approve the rate caps on payday lenders, regardless of threats that the industry would close its doors if it had to lend money at 36 percent interest or less.
Over 200,000 Michigan families were behind on their mortgage payments as of June, and more than 300,000 are expected to lose their homes to foreclosure between now and 2012, according to a new report produced by the Center for Responsible Lending.
WASHINGTON — Not a single state has authorized payday lending since Michigan did so in 2005. But elsewhere in the country, states are taking decisive action to rein in the industry, which is organizing for fights in state capitals and in Washington, D.C.
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