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 annual January Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference (CREC) in Lansing is over and the news is as bleak as expected. The bottom line projection is a $1.725 billion deficit — at least — for the state government in FY 2011, which begins in October. That’s not a surprise, of course; early estimates predicted a deficit [...]
A state representative from the Flint area told the Davison School Board last week that the funding mechanism for Michigan’s public schools is “broke.” According to the Flint Journal, Rep. Richard Hammel, a Mt. Morris Democrat, said:
One of the many joint House/Senate conference committees in the state legislature approved a bill on Wednesday that includes massive cuts in state funding for public schools around the state. If approved, the bill would cut state aid to schools by $218 per student and decrease funding for intermediate school districts by a whopping 44 [...]
A plan by Michigan House Republicans to provide relief at the gas pump is coming under fire from the other side of the aisle. GOP lawmakers want to put the gasoline tax on a summer vacation. Their plan is to suspend the state sales tax on gas from Memorial Day until Labor Day. The reps [...]
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