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 House Judiciary Committee, led by Rep. John Conyers of Detroit, is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct an independent and complete investigation of the FBI raid that resulted in the gunning down of Detroit area Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah at a warehouse in Dearborn in October.
“The need to provide a thorough, rigorous and transparent accounting of the shooting here is plain,” Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, wrote in a Jan. 13 letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, asking that the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division launch a probe into the shooting.
FBI agents have said they were justified in shooting Abdullah because he had opened fire on the agents during a raid on a stolen-goods operation. An FBI dog was killed, prompting agents to return fire.
But community leaders claim the FBI targeted Abdullah, and that the shooting was not justified — allegations Conyers mentioned in his letter to Holder.
“These concerns are only inflamed when the Special Agent in charge of the Detroit FBI office asserts — before investigation has been completed — that ‘I’m comfortable with what our agents did … they did what they had to do to protect themselves.’ Such preliminary judgments cause many observers to fear that (the Justice Department’s) internal investigations will simply reach preordained conclusions to protect the government’s own.”
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