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.
Last month a federal judge blasted the city of Detroit for destroying a computer that belonged to former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick because it likely contained evidence that could be important in ongoing corruption investigations. Now Kilpatrick has said in court filings that he gave that computer to Ken Cockrel Jr., who succeeded him in office when he was forced to step down. The Detroit Free Press reports:
“Upon my departure, I set up a transition team and that computer was handed over to Ken Cockrel, Jr,” Kilpatrick stated in an affidavit filed today in U.S. District Court.
Kilpatrick also said that he deleted most of his e-mails, noting that he didn’t know “how to archive or store any e-mails.”
“During all relevant times while I was Mayor, I would delete most e-mails after reading and, if necessary, respond to the e-mail which had been sent to me. After responding, I typically deleted the e-mail that I was responding to,” Kilpatrick stated in his affidavit.
But this conflicts with what an attorney from the city of Detroit told the court last month, which is that Kilpatrick’s computer and that of his former mistress, Christine Beatty, were thrown out and replaced months before he left office in 2008. Curiouser and curiouser.
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