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 Michigan Department of Agriculture’s food bank program will be cut by 14 percent under a budget approved by a panel of House and Senate negotiators yesterday, AP reports. The Michigan Agriculture Surplus Program pays farmers to harvest, clean, package and ship surplus fruits and vegetables that they donate to Michigan’s needy. It supplied around [...]
In his most recent essay, Jack Lessenberry says that the state budget deficit is far worse than most people understand and he calls on the governor to get on television and begin explaining how we got into this situation and what can be done about it. Lessenberry reports that according to the latest projection by [...]
Andy Dillion, the speaker of the Michigan House, says the state may need a “10-year time out” to recreate the middle class jobs lost in the current economic crisis. Dillion made the comments while speaking to the Midland Area Chamber of Commerce, according to a report in the Saginaw News.
For “less than the cost of a value meal at McDonald’s” — $2.51 — the Michigan Department of Corrections provides three meals a day to each of the nearly 50,000 prisoners in the state system, said spokesman Russ Marlin. With careful purchasing and planning by agency food service people, Marlin said, the state spends close [...]
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