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 examined the publicly available records in the controversial lawsuit against the city of Detroit by three of Tamara “Strawberry” Greene’s children.
The lawsuit has become a political weapon in the primary for the GOP nomination for governor, with Attorney General Mike Cox being targeted from the revelations in the lawsuit’s affidavit filings. Many of those filings have implied a party — described by the Free Press as a bacchanal — took place at the Detroit mayoral house Manoogian Mansion. That party allegedly featured strippers, prostitutes, the mayor and an outraged First lady.
But Cox declared the party “an urban legend,” some years ago.
The Free Press piece notes the information leaking out of the sealed files appear to support claims the party, and an alleged assault by Kilpatrick’s wife, did occur. But it also notes the continued flood of supposedly sealed records could be a shrewd move by attorney Norman Yatooma to get the jury pool paying attention to the information or to shame the city into a lucrative deal to end the lawsuit.
But its most visible side effect has been to drag the lawsuit into the ongoing battle for the GOP nomination. And that has been happening for months.
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