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 state Dept. of Labor and Economic Growth announced this week that federal funding cuts had forced it to scale back the No Worker Left Behind Program, which offers college tuition to help low-income and laid-off workers make a start in a new career field. Today the Detroit News reports that since the retraining program [...]
State by state jobless numbers released by the U.S. Dept. of Labor show that for the first time in four years Michigan is not the state with the highest level of unemployment. The Detroit News reports that Nevada now leads the nation with 14 percent unemployment while Michigan’s rate has dropped from 14 percent in [...]
The U.S. Department of Labor issued its weekly unemployment report this morning, showing the highest number of unemployed workers at 4.78 million — the highest level since this figure was first compiled and reported in 1967. New jobless claims for the week ending Jan. 25 had been estimated at 585,000; the actual figure was worse [...]
A report that Gov. Jennifer Granholm could be in line for the Labor Secretary position in the Obama administration was warmly received by Frank Wiechert, business manager for Pipe Fitters local 636 in Detroit. “I think she’d be great,“ he said. “She’s always been concerned about labor and knows about working families concerns in Michigan [...]
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