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 — Rayford Jackson, the Synagro consultant who pleaded guilty Monday of offering Detroit City Council members bribes to approve a $1.2-billion solid-waste disposal contract with his company, has a brother who is reportedly willing to name city council members involved in the bribe to escape jail time.
According to the Detroit Free Press:
Rayford Jackson won’t cooperate with federal investigators in the ongoing City Hall corruption probe. But apparently his younger brother will. Surrounded by bodyguards, Rayford Jackson walked Monday into U.S. District Court in Detroit, where he pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe a City Council member — identified by sources as Monica Conyers — to approve the Synagro deal…While Jackson’s lawyer announced that his client will not name names, court records show his younger brother, Lennie Jackson, will avoid prosecution by cooperating.
Conyers has insisted that she has nothing to fear from this because she was not involved.
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