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.
Monica Conyers — former Detroit City Council chairperson and the wife of longtime U.S. Congressman John Conyers — is set to begin a three-year prison term after turning herself in at 2 pm today. But the Detroit Free Press reports that it’s not exactly the Florence Supermax prison she’s going to:
But come 2 o’clock today, Monica Conyers’ fight to stay out of prison should be officially over when she begins her 37-month prison sentence at the Alderson Federal Prison Camp in West Virginia.
The facility, nicknamed Camp Cupcake, is nestled among the bucolic foothills of the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia along the Greenbrier River. It looks like a college campus — and is called that by locals — and has housed celebrity convicts such as Martha Stewart.
Conyers has been trying to evade and delay the sentence by every means imaginable. After pleading guilty to bribery and corruption, she then tried to withdraw that guilty plea and was rejected by the federal court. She’s now appealing that ruling but is very unlikely to win.
She was supposed to report to prison in July but got two month delay to attend to a sick relative. A second attempt to delay the start of her term was denied by the court.
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