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.
Just when you thought the sorry saga over the bargain-basement sale of the Pontiac Silverdome was over, comes even more legal maneuvers. Except they aren’t nearly as cheap, according to Pontiac emergency financial manager Fred Leeb. “Every day we are in court it costs us — legal fees, time which could be spent in a [...]
On Monday, Oakland County Judge Edward Sosnick ruled that the bargain basement sale of the former home of the Detroit Lions — $583,000 for a stadium that cost $55.7 million to build 35 years ago — should proceed despite the efforts of a rival buyer to have an injunction placed on the sale. And the [...]
Last week’s bargain basement auction of the Pontiac Silverdome is far from the end of the story. After the 80,000-seat arena was sold for $583,000 — about 1 percent of what it cost to build the stadium in the early 1970s — a rival buyer filed an injunction to halt the sale, claiming that a [...]
The stadium that was once the National Football League’s largest venue (seating capacity: 80,300) is up for auction today. Bidding on the property will close at 4 p.m. And apparently, real estate experts say the Silverdome is a great deal — if you just happen to have millions of dollars burning a hole in your [...]
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