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 Detroit Convention Facility Authority, the five-member regional authority appointed to control Cobo Center next month, is pushing ahead even though it may not survive a legal challenge from the Detroit City Council.
The Free Press reports that the authority discussed plans, but “stopped short” of implementing one that would request proposals from management companies to run Cobo.
By meeting, the authority is showing it won’t be stopped by the city council’s verbal outrage. Furthermore, it has the backing of Detroit’s interim mayor, Kenneth Cockrel Jr. The mayor’s spokesperson said the authority’s actions are about jobs, not politics, which implies that actions to stop it would be politically-motivated and harm the cause of making and keeping jobs.
Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Isidore Torres has scheduled a hearing on the city council’s lawsuit for March 26.
(Justin Miller is a political journalist based in Wayne County who has worked for Real Clear Politics, blogged for The Atlantic and covered the 2008 elections in Ohio for The New York Observer’s Politicker.com network of state politics news sites.)
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