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 — One week after his communications chief suddenly resigned, Mayor Dave Bing appointed Karen Dumas, a public relations entrepreneur and journalist, as his interim public relations director according to an announcement from Bing’s office last week. But it was just a month ago that Dumas wasn’t that thrilled with Bing’s mayoral bid. In a blog post just before the election titled “State of Confusion,” she considered not voting for mayor at all because she was not impressed with Bing or his opponent, then-interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr.
Dumas wrote on her blog two days before the May 5 special election:
While I can’t imagine NOT voting, I can’t image WHO to vote for in the upcoming mayoral election on Tuesday. I may just vote, and just skip the mayoral question. I just can’t imagine…
Dumas served ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s administration as director of community affairs and director of culture art and tourism. Dumas replaces Robert Warfield, Bing’s former communications chair who suddenly resigned without explanation two weeks ago.
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