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 ongoing saga continues in the wake of the FBI’s killing of Detroit Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah. On Tuesday, members of Abdullah’s family — and Rep. John Conyers — demanded a second autopsy on the African-American Muslim leader as well as the release of any other evidence in the case. The Detroit Free Press reports:
The lawyer and advocates for the family of a Detroit imam shot to death by FBI agents last fall are seeking a second autopsy and any video surveillance the government might have showing the deadly raid.
The groups, along with the widow of Luqman Ameen Abdullah, appeared at a news conference Tuesday in Detroit with U.S. Rep. John Conyers, who called for an independent Justice Department investigation into the imam’s Oct. 28 death in a Dearborn warehouse.
The FBI maintains that officers at the scene acted appropriately, that Abdullah opened fire first and they merely responded during the raid on a Dearborn warehouse. But the fact that his body arrived at the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s office in handcuffs has prompted serious questions about that story, the most obvious of which is: Why would you handcuff a man who is already dead? Video of the actual shooting and the aftermath would certainly help answer that question.
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