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.
City officials reported Detroit’s voter turnout in Tuesday’s mayoral primary at 14 percent.
On Tuesday’s ballot were choices for Detroit mayor –businessman David Bing and interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel won– and six ballot proposals.
While at first glance 14 percent turnout seems shockingly low, political consultant and pollster Mark Grebner, whose company conducted tracking for the primary, says that the voter turnout percentage may be deceiving.
Grebner noted that a more accurate way to measure this week’s voter turnout in Detroit may be to look at the number of people who voted in November’s presidential election (which had a very high turnout) and use that as a reference point. He said 320,000 people voted in the last November’s election.
“Tuesday just about 29 percent of those very same people got themselves to the polls, or at least found a stamp for their absentee ballots,” Grebner said.
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