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.
Friday was not a good day for Michigan’s controversial medical marijuana law, with two separate court cases being denied by one state court and one federal court.
A new report that grades states on their disclosure of subsidies to business notes that four of Michigan’s five major subsidy programs now have some online recipient disclosure but gives the state a C- for overall transparency of the programs. The Good Jobs First analysis of Michigan subsidies finds that there is no public disclosure [...]
The folks at the Department of Homeland Security think they have denied safe havens to terrorists in the U.S. Monday, the department announced a new partnership with Walmart — the nation’s largest retailer — as part of its ongoing “see something, report something” programs. The new partnership launched Monday in 230 stores, and in the [...]
A policy which prevents registered medical marijuana patients from using or possessing their medicine while at Michigan State University is coming under fire.
A lawsuit against Walmart for firing a Battle Creek man for using medical marijuana to help with an inoperable brain tumor despite such usage being legal in Michigan is set to begin on Friday in federal court in Grand Rapids. Joseph Casias uses medical marijuana in full compliance with Michigan law, but Walmart still fired [...]
The ACLU is suing Walmart for wrongful termination on behalf of a Michigan man who was fired for using medical marijuana in full compliance with state law. The plaintiff, Joseph Casias, was fired by the retail giant’s Battle Creek store for testing positive on a drug test despite the fact that he was a registered [...]
Walmart is facing criticism, legal action and a boycott call over a decision to fire a 29-year-old employee of its Battle Creek store for using medical marijuana. The story broke last week on Kalamazoo based news station WWMT, and Grand Rapids television station WZZM also reported on it. According to the The WZZM report, Joseph [...]
State sales tax is supposed to pay for public services, but according to a report released this week by the Washington, D.C.-based economic policy group Good Jobs First, a little-known state tax policy allows retailers to keep a cut of the sales tax they collect. Nationwide over a billion dollars in state tax revenue is [...]
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