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.
The Detroit Free Press reports:
Detroit mayoral candidate David Bing pledged today that if elected to office he would not collect a salary. Instead, Bing said he would reallocate the $176,176 annual mayoral salary to hire more officers within the Detroit Police Department.
Wait a minute. That means Detroiters could have a volunteer for Mayor? We knew before this pledge that Bing wasn’t in it for the money; he’s a former NBA star and the owner of The Bing Group, a multimillion dollar auto manufacturing company.
This has the potential to be a grand philanthropic venture but it also opens the door to other questions. It makes one curious: What’s in it for him?
It may help buffer a setback to Bing’s campaign: Many Detroiters believe Bing is anti-union, and that’s a big deal in the Motor City.
Now that he’s making an offer which seems rather hard to refuse he might just have an edge over the likes of Nick Hood (the pastor with the billboards pretty much everywhere in Detroit) and Kenneth Cockrel (who is already undergoing a perjury investigation) and 11 other candidates which seem to be flying under the radar so far.
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