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.
Time is running out for the nearly 500 people who pulled petitions to run for
Detroit City Council. The deadline to file those petitions is today at 4 p.m. As of last week Friday, only 94 actually had filed, according to the Detroit Free Press.
All of the current council members who are running for re-election — Barbara-Rose Collins, Monica Conyers, Brenda Jones, Kwame Kenyatta, Martha Reeves, Alberta Tinsley-Talabi, JoAnn Watson — have already filed their petitions.
Councilwoman Sheila Cockrel will not be running for re-election. She told WJR’s Frank Beckmann in an interview Friday that she will “find other ways to serve Detroit.”
Kenneth Cockrel Jr., the council president, may be planning to make his exit from the council as he plans to challenge newly elected Mayor Dave Bing, who defeated Cockrel, who has been serving as interim mayor since the departure of ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick last year, during last week’s special mayoral election.
Among the council hopefuls with name recognition are former Detroit Police Department spokesman James Tate; Gary Brown, the former deputy police chief and whistleblower in the Kilpatrick text message scandal; Detroit police officer John Bennett; former Fox 2 anchor Charles Pugh; and Saunteel Jenkins, former chief of staff to the late Detroit City Council President Maryann Mahaffey.
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