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 Michigan Supreme Court has turned down an appeal by Benton Harbor residents who opposed the city’s move to turn part of its public lakefront into a luxury golf course.
The plan to have Sodexo Inc. take over facilities management for the Detroit Public Schools is troubling to some who point out that the company has been accused of cheating other school systems and discriminating against African-American workers.
Privately owned and operated prison will house more than 2,500 inmates in Lake County while experts say such facilities are poorly run, unsafe and do little for local economic development.
Republican congressional candidate Dan Benishek, once “all in favor of privatizing” Social Security, now takes a more moderate position on the matter — and is targeted by both sides for the politically convenient change in views.
House Republicans say privatizing prison food service will save the state millions of dollars every year, but similar plans in other states show that this can only be achieved by lowering the quality and nutrition content of the food being served.
Benton Harbor residents that oppose the transformation of the city’s lakefront park into a private golf course are appealing a recent Court of Appeals ruling that OK’d the golf development. The Friends of Jean Klock Park warn that if the ruling is allowed to stand it will clear the way for further corporate takeovers of [...]
A three judge panel of the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that a Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course is a “park and/or a public purpose” and therefore does not conflict with the 1917 deed that conveyed a 90 acre stretch of Lake Michigan dunes to the city of Benton Harbor as a public park. [...]
BENTON HARBOR — While this southwest Michigan city’s new Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course opened this summer only partially constructed, more than 2,500 visitors have hit the links in what used to be the public dunes along Lake Michigan. And just as expanded operations ramp up into the 2010 season, concerns about the privatization of public parkland in a poverty-stricken community are finding an audience in some powerful venues.
A proposal by Michigan House Republicans to privatize what’s left of the state’s juvenile justice system in order to save money has critics arguing that the plan wouldn’t achieve sizable savings and in some cases leave the state’s most dangerous incarcerated youths with no options for private-sector rehabilitation.
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