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 — City Councilwoman Monica Conyers entered U.S. District Court downtown around 10 a.m. to plead guilty to bribery charges connected to the Synagro Technologies sludge hauling scandal, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Conyers, who is married to U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr., is suspected of accepting more than $6,000 in exchange for a vote to approve a $1.2 billion, 25-year sludge hauling contract between the city and Synagro.
Two other Synagro representatives have entered guilty pleas this year in the scandal. James Rosendall, a former Michigan-based vice president of Synagro and Synagro consultant Rayford Jackson, both pleaded guilty to bribing a council member for a deciding vote in 2007.
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