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.
Benton Harbor-based Whirlpool Corp. has been criticized lately for outsourcing American jobs while benefiting from federal stimulus grants, and the union at its Evansville, Indiana plant recently filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board over company efforts to discourage organizing by employees. But times are good for company CEO and Chairman Jeff Fettig.
Opponents of the privatization of Benton Harbor’s Jean Klock park are considering their options following last month’s Court of Appeals ruling that an elite private golf course built on the city’s public lakefront does not violate the deed that granted the land to the public in 1917.
The Benton Harbor-based Whirlpool corporation, which recently received a $19 million dollar stimulus grant from the Dept. of Energy to develop smart grid capable appliances, is moving forward with plans to close it’s Evansville, Indiana refrigerator plant and build a new plant in Mexico. KCRG TV-9 reports that Whirlpool plans to close the plant in [...]
BENTON HARBOR — While this southwest Michigan city’s new Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course opened this summer only partially constructed, more than 2,500 visitors have hit the links in what used to be the public dunes along Lake Michigan. And just as expanded operations ramp up into the 2010 season, concerns about the privatization of public parkland in a poverty-stricken community are finding an audience in some powerful venues.
BENTON HARBOR — Former President George W. Bush, in a nearly 90-minute-long unscripted address to the local economic development club in this down-trodden southwest Michigan city, said Thursday evening he was honored to have served during “some unusual times,” making repeated references to the challenges he faced as commander in chief amid the “fog of war.”
Former President George W. Bush is expected to make his first major post-presidency speech this evening in Benton Harbor, one of Michigan’s poorest cities. Bush’s visit is sponsored by the Economic Development Club of Southwest Michigan which was founded by Louis Upton, the co-founder of the locally-headquartered Whirlpool Corp. and grandfather of longtime local Republican [...]
Former president George W. Bush will make what is being billed as his first domestic post-presidency speech to the Economic Development Club of Southwestern Michigan in Benton Harbor on May 28. The economic development club was founded in 1943 by Lewis Upton who also founded the Whirlpool Corp.
Federal regulators approved a controversial land swap and golf development without full knowledge of the contamination on land involved, opponents of the privatization of Benton Harbor’s Jean Klock Park warn. They are asking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to revoke the project’s permits while it considers the new information.
With construction underway on Harbor Shores, a controversial publicly supported private golf-based resort in Benton Harbor, the president of the local economic development group points out that the service industry jobs created by the project cannot be outsourced.
The final federal approvals have been granted for a controversial plan to turn Benton Harbor’s lakefront park into part of a privately owned golf course, and a citizen’s group that is trying to preserve the public park is anxiously awaiting a Friday court hearing that could either speed the project or stop it.
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