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.
Many Detroiters received another glossy brochure filled with flattering photos of now incarcerated former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick last week entitled: “Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick’s Next Detroit Neighborhood Initiative’s Report to the Community 2008.”
It’s still a secret who paid for Kilpatrick’s the last brochure last brochure entitled “Detroit Then and Now.”
But this time The Detroit News reported that Next Detroit Neighborhood initiative, a nonprofit organization that focuses on revitalizing six Detroit communities, footed the bill. Next Detroit started as a city program under the Kilpatrick administration and Kilpatrick wrote it into the budget for $25 million.
It’s still unclear whether the program has become private charity or is still being funded by the city.
Now it seems like he’s still reaping the benefits in the name of this nonprofit from his jail cell.
The chairman of Next Detroit, George Jackson, told the Detroit News that the Next Detroit staff “made a mistake” when they released that brochure.
One could be skeptical of this claim considering the amount of effort that goes into a print publication that involves editorial and photo content that is mass mailed throughout the city.
Perhaps this incident shows there are still people in Kwame’s camp, helping him save his name in case he wants to run for office again in five years.
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