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.
In a column for Dome magazine this week, Eating the Seed Corn, Jack Lessenberry interviews Michigan State University economic professor Charles Ballard about how Michigan has uncommonly generous tax breaks for seniors. According to Ballard the pensions of state government and local government employees and federal employees and military retirees are completely exempt from state [...]
In what is likely to be a headline repeated all over the state of Michigan, Bay City officials are considering how to eliminate more than a half million dollars from its already gutted budget. The cuts are needed, officials say, because of cuts to state revenue sharing. The revenue sharing program is funded from state [...]
According to the Associated Press, The Michigan State Fiscal Agency announced today the state would take in an estimated four percent less than originally projected in budget plans last year.
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