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 Michigan State Police are refusing court orders to remove people from the state’s sex offender registry while seeking a chance to argue before the judge in cases to which they are not a party.
A short while ago, U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Menominee) convened a hearing of the House oversight subcommittee he leads. The topic: The accelerating political problems – pun intended – facing Toyota these days. “Today’s hearing will examine whether Toyota Motor Corporation and NHTSA [the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration] acted in a timely fashion to [...]
According to newly released numbers posted on the Michigan State Police’s website, the state’s Sex Offender Registry currently lists 45,546 men, women and children on it. That marks an increase of 1,582 individual registered sex offenders — or an increase of more than 3.6 percent — since 2009′s first-quarter mandatory verification period. The new data, [...]
Backers of a new, publicly-owned bridge connecting Detroit to Windsor, Canada, received good news yesterday as the Michigan Department of Transportation’s new “investment-grade” study reaffirmed the need for a second bridge spanning the border. The study, conducted by Wilbur Smith Associates, projects traffic volumes through the next quarter century, and concludes that even despite the [...]
According to a document obtained by Michigan Messenger from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, if the city of Detroit were to consider selling off a portion of Riverside Park to the owner of the Ambassador Bridge -– or anyone else for that matter — significant hurdles would have to be overcome first. That’s due [...]
State Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a first-term Detroit Democrat, is determined to prevent the Detroit International Bridge Company from taking permanent control over any part of its next door neighbor, city-owned Riverside Park. And while the litigation over the small park in the shadow of the privately-owned Ambassador Bridge is only one of many lawsuits currently [...]
In Southwest Detroit, Riverside Park has emerged as a strategic battleground in a modern-day David v. Goliath match up. For the most part, the battlefield is the courtroom, but it may extend into the mayor’s office as well.
Earlier today, CNNMoney.com posted a fine preview feature story on the light-rail line planned for Detroit’s historic Woodward Avenue. The story, part of Time Inc.’s “Assignment Detroit” series, notes that construction on the $420 million M1 Rail project is set to begin later this year with trains actually running sometime in 2012. But the story [...]
While the federal Transportation Security Administration explains on its website that full-body scanners at airports using millimeter wave technology “are optional for all passengers,” devout Muslims may not have a choice anymore. That’s because last week the Indiana-based Fiqh Council of North America issued a religious ruling, or fatwa, that the scanners violate Islam’s teaching [...]
As jurors continue to deliberate in political consultant Sam Riddle’s public corruption trial in downtown Detroit, Detroit News metro columnist Laura Berman has a brilliant, plain-spoken analysis of what we already know. Her early verdict: “The trial of Sam Riddle has lifted a veil.”
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