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.
Detroit mayoral candidates David Bing and Kenneth Cockrel Jr. were absent from a forum sponsored by the Detroit-based political action group Call ‘Em Out, whose mission is to stop the “selling-out of our community by elected officials.”
Though Bing and Cockrel missed the forum, there were ten other mayoral candidates in attendance. Those who came out to hear concerns of the community and answer questions were Nick Hood, Stanley Christmas, Sharon McPhail, Duane Montgomery, Joseph Holt, Jeroll Sanders, Coleman A. Young Jr., Freman Hendrix, Warren Evans and Donald Bradley.
One of the major topics at the forum was whether Detroit should sell part of its water department to Macomb County, an issue all ten candidates said they were completely against.
There was some criticism by participants of candidate David Bing; a recent report by Diane Bukowski in the Michigan Citizen noted Bing is part of a “business leadership group” that wants to sell part of the Detroit Water and Sewage Department, privatizing some portion of the Detroit water system.
“It’s an insult that they don’t want to present themselves to the community,” said Agnes Hitchcock, co-chair of the Call ‘Em Out coalition regarding the absence of Bing and Cockrel.
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