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.
This may be the most appalling statement made by Sam Riddle on the 2000 — yes, two thousand — hours of wiretapped phone calls the FBI got of him. On one of those calls, Laura Berman reports, he says to a (male) friend, “Did I ever tell you I would have pimped — but I didn’t like the night air? But when you’re running these political women, it’s really close to the same thing.”
He is referring to Monica Conyers, the disgraced former Detroit City Council member who pleaded guilty to the same bribery and corruption charges Riddle is now facing; Mary Waters, a former state representative with whom he had a romantic and political relationship; Kay Everett, a former Detroit City Council member who was also convicted of bribery and corruption charges while he worked for her, and probably other women he has worked for in politics as well.
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