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 Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick must go, according to a report by Bill Goodman, the independent attorney hired by the Detroit City Council to help with its investigation into the mayor’s conduct in the wake of a police whistle-blower trial last summer.
Goodman delivered the 35-page report Monday morning to council offices, according to the Detroit Free Press. It calls for the council to remove Kilpatrick or to ask Gov. Jennifer Granholm to remove or censure him.
The Free Press managed to obtain the document even though it remains officially private until the council votes Tuesday on whether to release it.
According to the Free Press, the report does not directly recommend the mayor’s removal from office, but rather concludes that Kilpatrick’s conduct violated the city charter and that council should declare his violations as punishable by removal. Such a declaration would be the first step toward ousting him from office.
It also notes that the mayor has the right under the city charter to appeal his removal in the courts.
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