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 Emmet County Commission voted unanimously Thursday night to approve Sovereign Deed’s plan to build a controversial disaster response base at the Pellston Regional Airport. Sovereign Deed is a private security company that advertises disaster response services to subscribers who would pay fees of $50,000 or more. In the event of a disaster, subscribers might [...]
Barrett Moore, the CEO of Sovereign Deed — a company that wants to develop private disaster relief services with financial assistance from the state and county governments– declared personal bankruptcy in 1998 and has been sued for illegal or deceptive business practices three times in the last three years. Sovereign Deed’s plan is to develop [...]
Sovereign Deed, the private security company that is seeking to build a private disaster response center in northern Michigan, offers comprehensive disaster planning and response services to individuals and companies. But industry experts say their concept is unproven. Offering risk assessment, provisions, evacuation, rescue and shelter for membership fees as high as $50,000, Sovereign Deed [...]
Plans for a 700-acre private emergency reponse center at the Pellston Regional Airport were approved by the Emmett County Planning Commissioners last night, Thur. Nov. 1, even though the commissioners admitted that they didn’t know much of what is planned by the private security firm Sovereign Deed which sought the approval. “I’m uneasy with certain [...]
Steeped in legal conflicts since its founding, Sovereign Deed, a private security firm spun off from a controversial Iraq war contractor, is seeking to build a base of operations near Pellston. The firm, founded in 2006 by Barrett Moore, a Chicago-area entrepreneur who founded Triple Canopy — one of the largest private security firms operating [...]
“Country Club Fees” Would Guarantee Protection A retired general now working for a controversial private security company told an audience last night about the services the company plans to provide. The government does not have the tax base to provide services to everyone in the event of a major catastrophe, retired Brigadier General Richard W. [...]
The CEO of a private security company that plans to locate its national response center in northern Michigan will respond to citizen concerns at a meeting on Tuesday. In August Sovereign Deed, a company that offers private catastrophe response services, announced that it would build its national response center at the Pellston Airport in Emmet [...]
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