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.
The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division has declined — for now — to launch a separate investigation into the killing of Detroit Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah in a late-October FBI raid, according to a letter dated Dec. 2.
Dawud Walid, director of the Michigan Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, requested a civil rights investigation last month. He told Michigan Messenger he received the DOJ response on Monday.
According to the letter, signed by Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez on official letterhead, launching a federal criminal civil rights investigation would be premature. First, the standard review being conducted by the FBI’s Inspection Division must be completed, Perez wrote. Only after that will the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division makes its “independent” determination.
From the letter:
As is standard practice in shootings by FBI agents, the FBI’s Inspection Division is conducting a review of the shooting and the surrounding circumstances in collaboration with local authorities. Once the review is complete, the FBI will forward their report to the Civil Rights Division, which will conduct an independent review to determine whether a federal criminal civil rights investigation may be warranted by the facts.”
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