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 Associated Press reports that a high-ranking staff member for Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick has been summoned to testify before a federal grand jury in Detroit investigating corruption in the city. Cheeks Kilpatrick is the mother of disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who is a major target of that investigation.
It is not known whether Cheeks Kilpatrick herself is a target of that investigation, but it seems unlikely that her office manager would be called to testify unless there was at least some relationship to the corruption investigation. This could not come at a worse time for the congresswoman, now facing a primary challenge from state Sen. Hansen Clarke.
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