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.
For the third straight week, the Detroit City Council could not muster enough votes to take up the question of whether to put a referendum on the November ballot asking voters in the city whether they would support disbanding the school board and giving control of the Detroit Public Schools over to Mayor Dave Bing. The Detroit News reports:
“I don’t think anyone in this room will deny that DPS needs change,” Brown said. “The question is that do you trust the current DPS system in order to affect that change. That’s the question I believe the voters of the city of Detroit need to answer.”
But council members needed a supermajority of six votes to approve placing the issue on the agenda. The measure failed 5-4. President Charles Pugh, James Tate, Saunteel Jenkins, Andre Spivey and Brown favored it, while Brenda Jones, JoAnn Watson, Kenneth Cockrel Jr. and Kwame Kenyatta opposed it.
The matter was referred to a smaller council committee, but time is running out. The council begins a month-long break after this week and the deadline to put this question on the ballot is August 24.
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