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 small cadre of House Republicans on Thursday introduced legislation that will force Michigan State University and Wayne State University to forfeit millions of dollars in state aid payments.
Michigan State University and Wayne State University could face a combined $31 million in state revenue cuts if John Nixon, Gov. Rick Snyder’s budget director, determines the 6.9 percent tuition increases for this fall are actually more than that.
Wayne State University researchers have identified antibiotic-resistant MRSA bacteria in meat from grocery stores in Metro Detroit.
When the Mackinac Center’s requested emails from the labor programs at Wayne State and the University of Michigan, John Beck, Associate Professor and Director of the Labor Education Program at Michigan State University, says his phone started ringing off the hook.
To call Damon Keith a Michigan legal giant is to understate the case. The 88-year old judge, who has been on the federal bench for 43 years, was — quite literally — born on the 4th of July. And there’s probably no one in this state’s history who has done more to advance the cause [...]
Local officials and federal representatives are lobbying the National Institutes of Health to renew the contract for its Perinatology Research Branch (PRB) which is housed at Detroit’s Hutzel Women’s Hospital and is affiliated with Wayne State University, the Detroit Free Press reports. The PRB is one of few federal projects that specialize in prenatal health [...]
In his Detroit News column a couple weeks ago, Paul Kersey, director of labor policy at the conservative Mackinac Center for Public Policy based in Midland, basically argued that if AFSCME Council 25 doesn’t voluntarily agree to deep pay cuts and other concessions for its members, then bankruptcy is the only option left for Detroit.
DETROIT — The Motor City has been most famous for its past industrial endeavors. That’s why it’s still a bit surprising to some that within the city limits, there are more than 700 urban farms that yield more than 120 tons of produce each year. When harvest season comes around, the social aspect of urban farming shines through, with farmers coming together to celebrate the season at parties brimming with locally grown food and drink.
A letter from Business Leaders for Michigan which encouraged state lawmakers to support the budget framework agreement between Michigan House Speaker Andy Dillon (D-Redford Township) and Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop (R-Rochester), has some Michigan university president’s running for political cover.
BAY CITY — The case of Michael S. Holder, complete with a cast that includes an admittedly racially-biased jury, a scorned lover and a life-threatening virus surrounded more by fear than fact is only one example of several prosecutions brought under a 1988 law that experts warn is vague and can lead to vindictive prosecutions.
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