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.
Tom Barrow, the challenger to Mayor Dave Bing of Detroit in the last election, gets his chance in court this morning as Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Isadore Torres hears his quo warranto lawsuit to remove Bing from office due to alleged election irregularities.
A quo warranto lawsuit comes from the British common law and literally means “by what warrant.” Such suits are used to challenge those in power to show that they are exercising legitimate authority.
Barrow claims that the results of last November’s election are tainted and illegitimate because the Wayne County Board of Canvassers ruled that more than 59,000 votes were “unrecountable.” More than 41,000 of those were absentee ballots. Since then, Barrow has pursued the removal of Bing from office, filing complaints with Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, the U.S. Department of Justice and anyone else he could; so far none have even opened an investigation.
Barrow says that Bing is “the clear beneficiary of vote tampering, ballot box stuffing, electronic computer manipulation, likely fraud and employee malfeasance.” He now has his day in court to attempt to prove it.
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