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.
A Republican state Representative from Jackson County is coming under fire for accepting tax breaks and government loans for his company and then laying off more workers.
As part of the budget process, Gov. Jennifer Granholm every year submits to the state legislature a report entitled the Appendix on Tax Credits, Deductions, and Exemptions, which details all of the various tax breaks, deductions, exemptions and credits given by the state and adds up the revenue lost due to such grants. The latest [...]
The public comment period for a controversial, publicly financed luxury golf development in Benton Harbor has been extended by two weeks — until May 17 — by the City Commission. Benton Harbor is in the midst of a federally mandated public review of a lease proposal that would give developers control of a portion of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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