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.
According to her resignation notice, Monica Conyers’ last day as a Detroit City Council member was on Monday. But apparently, she didn’t even bother to show up at her offices at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center on her last day.
However, Conyers, who pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to commit bribery late last month, is still insisting she is a “councilwoman,” at least on television.
According to the Detroit Free Press, Conyers’ resignation has not stopped her from doing this week’s call-in television show “Ask the Councilwoman with Monica Conyers.” The Free Press notes that while her status as an elected official has changed, the name of the WHPR-TV program will remain the same.
“I’m still the councilwoman,” she said on Tuesday’s show. “I’m not going to not do my show.”
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