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.
A federal judge slammed the city of Detroit on Tuesday after being told that disgraced former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s computer was thrown out several months before he left office, potentially destroying evidence that might have been relevant to the seemingly endless lawsuit over an alleged party at the Manoogian Mansion that resulted in the death of stripper Tamara Greene. The Detroit News reports:
City lawyer John Schapka said that computer hard drives belonging to Kilpatrick and his former mistress and Chief of Staff Christine Beatty were thrown away and replaced in February 2008.
The hard drives were thrown away even though the Greene lawsuit was pending along with other legal cases involving electronic communication.
“I’m highly troubled by that,” U.S. Magistrate Judge R. Steven Whalen said. “The question is: What do we do?”
The judge could sanction the city but he is first asking the plaintiffs’ attorney to brief him on the issue.
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