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.
Almost 54 percent of the children in Detroit are living in poverty, new U.S. Census data shows, and cuts to education may make matters worse.
The U.S Census Bureau released state population totals Tuesday, so it’s now official — Michigan’s population has declined by .6 percent and the state will lose a Congressional seat.
With the continuing reduction of the manufacturing base in Michigan, the state’s population has now dropped below 10 million according to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. The Detroit News reports:
A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that nearly a quarter of Michigan children under five years of age now live in poverty, the Petoskey News-Review reports. As the state moves to cut assistance programs in the 2010 budget, Bill Denemy, director of the Department of Human Services for Emmet and Charlevoix counties, [...]
Robert Groves, director of the University of Michigan’s Survey Research Center, has finally been confirmed to head the U.S. Census Bureau. Republican lawmakers had held up President Obama’s nominee for the job for months before a vote was finally taken yesterday and Groves was confirmed 76-15. Groves served as the associate director of the Census [...]
President Obama’s nominee to be the director of the U.S. Census Bureau, a former director of the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan named Robert Groves, has not received a vote on his confirmation 40 days after the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs unanimously sent his nomination to the floor.
A new U.S. Census report says that Michigan lost 46,000 residents between July, 2007 and July, 2008. That’s .5% of the total population of the state. The only other state to lose population in that time span was Rhode Island.
While Governor Granholm was in Colorado getting national exposure hosting a question and answer forum that focused on jobs and alternative energy at the Democratic National Convention, new government numbers were adding up to bad news back at home.
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