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.
On the eve of a planned demonstration against the suspension of local rule in Benton Harbor, Free Press business columnist Tom Walsh warns that the hassles and embarrassment of recent political tumult may drive the locally-headquartered Whirlpool corporation out of town.
Whirlpool has won the first round of a process that could end with tariffs being put on the importation of refrigerators from Mexico and South Korea after the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled that it is being harmed by cheap labor in those countries.
Opponents of the privatization of Jean Klock Park are hoping that all the attention focused on Benton Harbor as a result of the suspension of local government will bring support for the legal fight to take back the park.
Residents of Benton Harbor should not lose their democratic rights or their city parks just because the city is poor, Rev. Jesse Jackson said yesterday, and he called for people to speak out against Michigan’s Emergency Manager law.
Tom Walsh of the Detroit Free Press praises Whirlpool for building a new $85 million headquarters in the Benton Harbor area but only tells half the story. Yes, this is at least a temporary boost in the arm for the local economy as the office complex gets built. But the HQ itself isn’t likely to [...]
Benton Harbor-based Whirlpool Corp. is closing a factory in that economically-depressed city, eliminating 216 jobs. I sure am glad we gave Whirlpool $19 million in stimulus money to help create jobs, aren’t you? But not to worry. Those newly unemployed workers can always apply for minimum wage jobs at the Harbor Shores private golf course, [...]
Benton Harbor’s relationship to the development company that turned its public waterfront into part of a golf course is like a bad marriage, City Commissioner Duane L. Seats II said Monday as he introduced a resolution withdrawing city support for the mixed use luxury development that has received millions in grants from the state. The [...]
Yesterday we reported that a Whirlpool vice president had warned workers at their Evansville plant, which is slated to be closed and the jobs moved to Mexico, not to protest or they may risk their future employment possibilities. The union that represents workers at that plant has now filed a federal complaint over what they [...]
Benton Harbor, Michigan-based Whirlpool, a company to whose fortune U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) is heir, is telling workers in its Evansville, Indiana plant — which is about to be shut down to move the 1,100 jobs to Mexico — not to protest the closing of that plant or they may risk their future [...]
The private golf-centered luxury housing development that took over Benton Harbor’s public lakefront as part of an economic development scheme endorsed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm received $12.6 million in new tax credits last week, even though a state board has begun pursuing the company for failed commitments.
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