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 Detroit Free Press has a series of articles — you can see them all linked from this page — about the FBI’s ongoing investigation of corruption in Detroit, much of which apparently centers on disgraced former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his father. Based on an analysis of documents related to the investigation, the Free Press reports:
The Free Press has learned that at least nine businesspeople have testified to a grand jury or told federal investigators in interviews that they paid Bernard Kilpatrick, who ran a consulting firm called Maestro Associates, tens of thousands of dollars to try to get contracts from the city run by his son, former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
FBI agents don’t believe Bernard Kilpatrick actually was consulting. They think he was paid for access to Detroit’s mayor.
Neither the former mayor nor his father have been charged with anything so far, but the grand jury continues to hear testimony and the feds clearly have both of them in their sights. If and when those charges are filed, the case may be rather difficult to prove — which is likely why the feds are being so careful before bringing them.
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