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.
DETROIT — Mayor Dave Bing traveled to Lansing Tuesday morning to urge state lawmakers to introduce and pass legislation that would raise the cap on short-term loans so that the city can borrow enough money to avoid bankruptcy. Because this is Bing’s first meeting with state legislature, he told the Detroit Free Press that much [...]
Public defender systems around the nation are not in good shape, but Michigan’s system is so underfunded and unguided that one study earlier this year called it a “constitutional crisis.” Michigan’s cases of failed public legal representation are so shocking that they caught the attention of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. In a speech to [...]
DETROIT — Some Board of Education members want a state investigation into how much the city owes the district in delinquent property taxes because the reported amount of debt has been inconsistent. The board’s finance committee voted for the investigation and the rest of the board will make the final decision on Thursday.
A citizens advocacy group, Progress Michigan, is calling on Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop (R-Rochester) to raise taxes in order to keep school bus inspections part of the state budget, according to a press release put out by the non-profit group on Friday. According to the Detroit Free Press, the Michigan State Police has already [...]
The September unemployment stats for Michigan came out this week and they are high — as expected. Mlive.com highlighted the statistics on a municipal level, showing the five cities with the highest jobless rates are all over 25 percent. The cities of Highland Park and Pontiac, which leaned heavily on auto-related employment, had the highest [...]
State Sen. Buzz Thomas (D-Detroit) slammed his fellow state lawmakers for taking so long to finalize the 2009/2010 budget in an interview on WDET’s radio program “Detroit Today” this afternoon. “This is embarrassing and we owe our citizens better,” he told Detroit Today’s Craig Fahle in an interview. Thomas said he would be “screaming loudly” [...]
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