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.
The Michigan Citizen’s Diane Bukowski reports that interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. has accepted big campaign contributions from city contractors.
The article lists contributions from contractors including $7,000 from Waste Management’s WMI PAC of Michigan; $10,200 in from Detroit Water and Sewage Department contractor James Nicholson of PVS Chemicals; 3,400 from James D’Agostini of D’Agostini Construction; 1,500 from Richard DeMaria of Demaria Building Company; 1,00 from Michael Rosett of Fairway Construction; and 1,000 form Cullen DuBose of Painia Development.
Cockrel’s spokesperson Dan Cherrin told Michigan Citizen that Cockrel doesn’t support certain contractors just because they made donations. He noted that Cockrel has voted against some contractors that donated to his campaign in the past.
The special election primary for mayor of Detroit is next Tuesday, Feb. 24.
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