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 — When businessman David Bing was elected Detroit’s next mayor Tuesday night, it also set in motion major changes to the Detroit City Council lineup.
Cockrel — who before the election said of the prospect of going back to the city council “[b]een there done that. I’m not looking to go back” — will now return to his former position as council president, which he held the eight months since then-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick resigned amid the text message scandal that toppled him from power.
Monica Conyers, who served as city council president while Cockrel was interim mayor, will be move back into the office of council president pro-tem. JoAnn Watson who was stepped in to serve as council president pro tem while Conyers was acting president, will see her title revert to the title of councilwoman.
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