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.
As legislation to end juvenile-life-without-parole sentences in Michigan remains stalled in the Senate Judiciary Committee, some court watchers are warning that the controversial sentence may not be in tune with recent public opinion and is not applied fairly by the justice system.
In an interview with Michigan Messenger this month, the commissioner, Jim Koski, acknowledged that he has ignored DEQ wetlands regulations while acting on behalf of Hemlock Semiconductor — and dared the state to sue him. This week, the Department of Environmental Quality referred the violations to the attorney general.
In a case that has been going on for seven years, a federal jury has awarded a total of $145,000 to four people who were mistreated while detained on misdemeanor charges at the Saginaw County Jail. The four plaintiffs in the case had been arrested at different times and in different cases and were awaiting [...]
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