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 Flint Journal has an interesting article about how Detroit and Flint (and Saginaw, to a lesser degree) are looking at how to shrink their cities in the wake of plummeting population, but are taking different routes to that end. But Detroit is looking to force the issue with reluctant residents, while Flint is not:
Over at WalletPop, they’ve looked closer into a big recent auction of foreclosed properties in Detroit, and it’s an even bleaker situation than first reported. The Wayne County auction of some 9,000 repossessed properties last week resulted in more than 80 percent of them failing to draw a single bid. And that’s even with the [...]
Both candidates seeking Flint’s top political job agree that something needs to be done to stem the tide of blight that seems to be increasing as the economy continues to falter. To what degree the city, once Michigan’s second largest, should be involved is where they disagree.
WASHINGTON — For a while now at The Washington Independent, sister site to Michigan Messenger, we’ve been keeping an eye on developments in the shrinking cities movement. It’s a new idea for urban development, aimed at saving cities by making them smaller: Cordoning off the sections that are abandoned and marred by blight, urging the [...]
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