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.
Ingham County Register of Deeds Curtis Hertel, Jr. spent Tuesday evening at the African American Health Initiative in Lansing explaining the roots and complications of the ongoing foreclosure crisis.
The city of Lansing has landed at the number two spot on a national list indicating the area has the second cheapest real estate in the nation.
Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero introduced his 2012 city budget to the Lansing City Council last night. The budget includes an estimated $20 million deficit caused by declining property values and proposed cuts in state revenue sharing.
An offer by Enbridge Energy Partners to purchase homes in an area impacted by the late July spill of an estimated one million gallons of crude oilinto the Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River is garnering more interest than expected.
Abandoned and vacant homes rapidly piling up in communities like Detroit are symbols of the secondary damage caused by the foreclosure crisis — a catastrophe felt on the ground but still unseen by Washington.
The median price of a house sold in the city of Detroit has fallen to a staggering $7,500, the Chicago Tribune reports. And the bad news simply piles on top of that frightening statistic:
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