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’s WADL-TV Channel 38 will host the second televised mayoral debate of the special election at 8:00 p.m. this evening. The candidates were chosen in a random draw after controversy arose regarding the method by which sponsors chose the candidates for the previous mayoral debate.
This time, candidates Coleman A. Young, D. Etta Wilcoxon and Stanley Christmas will be at the podium. Candidate Sharon McPhail, former general counsel to the City of Detroit under Kwame Kilpatrick, will not be there. Although she was originally slated to appear tonight, she is refusing to attend the debate because she considers the lineup “insulting.”
“You are not going to put me in the room with them and a 25-year-old,” McPhail told the Detroit News, referring to Coleman A. Young Jr., son of the prominent former Detroit mayor and the lesser known candidates Christmas and Wilcoxon.
However, McPhail participated in last night’s Call ‘Em Out debate alongside some of the the same candidates she called insulting — specifically, Coleman Young Jr. and Stanley Christmas.
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