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 new issue of Essence magazine has an in-depth profile of Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy that’s well worth the read. While the fawning headline (“Kym Worthy: The Toughest Woman in Detroit”) could give the impression of a puff-piece profile, that wouldn’t be exactly right.
Instead, the article probes the background, family life and professional motivation of Worthy in an insightful, 360-degree kind of way. It also lays out Worthy’s penchant for tenaciously going after wrong-doers regardless of the racial politics involved.
In 2004, Worthy became the first woman and the first African-American to lead the prosecutor’s office — the largest one in the state. And last but not least, the article reveals a brutally honest prosecutor lamenting the inability of law enforcement in the city of Detroit to do better.
This quote from Worthy, in particular, caught my attention:
Everybody knows that if you want to commit a crime, just cross 8 Mile Road into Detroit and commit it, because the odds are very much in your favor that you won’t get caught.
The picture presented here of Worthy is undoubtedly positive, but nuanced too. At the end of the article, she suggests she and her staff have to be on their toes constantly because they live and work in “a great big fishbowl.”
It seems Worthy — who tells Essence she isn’t even thinking about seeking higher office right now — wouldn’t have it any other way.
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