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.
As jurors continue to deliberate in political consultant Sam Riddle’s public corruption trial in downtown Detroit, Detroit News metro columnist Laura Berman has a brilliant, plain-spoken analysis of what we already know.
Her early verdict: “The trial of Sam Riddle has lifted a veil.”
Here’s an excerpt:
In this subterranean world of friends and political favors, everyone wants to get their deals done, contracts signed, licenses granted. Millions of dollars in employee’s hard-earned pension funds are the ripe fruit dangling in Detroit’s desert.
With so many dollars in play, shrewd businessmen like Washington and Greektown mogul Jim Papas allegedly forgot the basic vocabulary of a 2-year-old: “No!”
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