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 new poll conducted by Denno Noor Research of Lansing and reported by Freep.com shows that businessman David Bing and interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. are the leading candidates in Detroit’s mayoral primary set for February 24th.
According to the poll which targeted 300 likely Detroit voters, Bing leads with 28 percent and Cockrel was a close second with 22 percent. Former deputy Mayor Freman Hendrix took third place with 13 percent of voter support. If this poll is any indicator of primary results, the other 12 candidates have a lot of catching up to do. The bottom 12 candidates polled at 4 percent or less, while 22 percent of respondents said they were undecided.
The poll’s margin of error was plus or minus 5.8 percentage points which means all three candidates — Bing, Cockrel and Hendrix — are running a tight race.
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