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The Michigan Messenger going forward

By Staff Report | 11.16.11

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 [...]

Colorado-based abstinence program provided false and misleading information to Michigan students

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.16.11

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.

Class action lawsuit filed against MERS over unpaid taxes

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.15.11

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.

Schuette fights important mercury regulations

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By Eartha Jane Melzer | 11.14.11

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 is officially U.S. ‘murder capital’

By Minehaha Forman | 06.05.09 | 11:48 am

DETROIT — Due to a corrected statistical error, Michigan’s largest city has now overtaken Baltimore as America’s most dangerous city.

According to a report in the Baltimore Sun, Detroit Police acknowledged an error in the number of Detroit murders. The Detroit Police Department confirmed Thursday that the homicide rate was underreported by 33 murders, putting Detroit over the edge to overtake Baltimore’s murder rate by half a percentage point.

Detroit also topped Forbes list of most dangerous U.S. cities in April, headed with the warning: “Don’t end up on the wrong side of the tracks in these troubles places.”

Comments

  • http://rainonlevs.livejournal.com/ KellyLogan

    Not to minimize the issue of murder, but if you're reading Forbes, chances are anywhere in SouthEast Michigan is “the wrong side of the tracks” for you these days. . .

  • JKuzmik

    I'm really discourage with this comment i have lived in Detroit for over ten years and like any major city you have to know your surroundings. I'm so tired of my city getting a bad rap! I have lived in two other major city's in this county and i will tell you i feel safer in Detroit then i do in Alanta or Richmond

    • Anonymous

      I live in a suburb of Atlanta and I feel safe out here. I must admit that I’ve never lived in Detroit, but I was born and raised in it’s first cousin “Gary” and although I know the area, ain’t no way in hell I would move back there and it doesn’t seem like Detroit will ever make the list.

  • JKuzmik

    I'm really discourage with this comment i have lived in Detroit for over ten years and like any major city you have to know your surroundings. I'm so tired of my city getting a bad rap! I have lived in two other major city's in this county and i will tell you i feel safer in Detroit then i do in Alanta or Richmond

  • cymru

    Why the fk do it have a high murder rate, like why you gotts kill eachother? It's bollox, you got a city like london which have millions of people in it and its murder rate is like a third if that of detroits' it must be embedded in the culture. I live in a country where it's murder rate in a year would be overtaken by detroit within the first month. My country got 3million people too lol.

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/ZEPGKHC5RRRV5GILFXX3TGMJ7E Elliott McKenna

      Sorry to criticize but just because you see the worst possible parts of Detroit's previewed on 60 Minutes and all the horrible things doesn't means its a bad city. Its just drama presented to the rest of the world to make ignorant people like you believe your safer where your at. Why don't you come here and actually see the nicer side of the neighborhood and the learn about the history of the city. But that might be asking a bit much seeing as your just some dumb hick who only speaks in Ebonics.

      • Rudy Hayer

        he isn’t talking in ebonics…he’s from london. reread it before you talk shit about someone

  • cymru

    Why the fk do it have a high murder rate, like why you gotts kill eachother? It's bollox, you got a city like london which have millions of people in it and its murder rate is like a third if that of detroits' it must be embedded in the culture. I live in a country where it's murder rate in a year would be overtaken by detroit within the first month. My country got 3million people too lol.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kristen-Grogg/100001781401472 Kristen Grogg

    I live in Detroit and there are so many beautiful areas and beautifully artictectually designed buildings that you can’t find anywhere else in the US. Yes there are some bad areas but usually those people stick to those areas, just because some of Detroit is bad it dosen’t mean that it’s all bad. Alot of things that do happen here are due to ignorant people or because of the high homeless rate, especially in the winter. They go into the oul big aboandoned houses and either freeze to death or try to make a fire to stay warm, fall asleep and burn to death. By the time they’re found they’ve been dead for some time because most people wont just waltz into the abandoned homes around here and there is nobody to claim these homeless people and they’re just tallied in to people dead in Detroit.

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