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.
Could Michigan’s oldest newspaper become a tabloid? Hey, it could be worse. The Detroit Free Press could wind up just as its top editors envision it — a skimpy rag for home subscribers who pay for it and something slightly more substantial as a freebie on the web. Hey, isn’t that what they’re doing now? [...]
Obituary time at the Detroit Free Press: That venerable promotional creature, the furry, goofy Yak is dead. Word from inside the Freep is that this popular creature – an educational feature aimed at kids, part of it contained in the comics – and the award-winning reporting that were part of the Yak persona have [...]
The monopoly that owns the News and Free Press in Detroit is looking to shoo 150 more workers out the door with buyouts similar to ones that ushered 110 workers into early retirement last November. The papers downsized by 5 percent. Sixteen left the editorial rooms of the Free Press, while the remainder exited from [...]
I swatted mosquitoes as I watched a man steer a big, yellow machine through a dense, humid woods that leads to the Rouge River near Six Mile and Telegraph in Detroit. It was early the morning of Saturday, June 7, 2008 — the beginning of Rouge Rescue, the annual cleanup of the Rouge River in [...]
[COMMENTARY] A week after a federal jury acquitted Geoffrey Fieger of charges that he used “straw donors” to cover more than a hundred grand he donated to the 2004 John Edwards presidential campaign, the Detroit Free Press finally says Fieger was wrong about one of the statements he made before the trial ended. Better late [...]
[COMMENTARY] Bet some Gannett news execs are heaving giant sighs of relief that they lost their case in the arbitration of my $500 donation to Michigan Dems in 2004. Turns out more than two dozen top Gannett honchos did the same thing I did in 2004 — contributed money to political parties or partisan causes. [...]
After virtually drumming Detroit’s mayor out of office, you’d think the town’s vigilante press would let up once in a while. Nope. The ever-watchful Detroit Free Press maybe thought they’d pound another nail in the coffin of this area by alleging in a May 27 story that Wayne County is nearly a lakeless patch of [...]
An arbitrator has ruled there was nothing wrong with my $500 donation to Michigan Democrats in 2004. Last year, Free Press managers told me they might fire me if I continued to give money to political parties. The Newspaper Guild filed a grievance, and the managers denied it. Early this year, there was a hearing [...]
[Ed. note: The jury has asked for more documents, other media outlets report this afternoon. While we wait for what looks like a protracted period of deliberation, let's take another look at "The Jeff".] [COMMENTARY] According to recent accounts in the Detroit Free Press, besieged attorney Geoffrey Fieger doesn’t think he’s very popular in Michigan. [...]
[COMMENTARY] Wonderful story in Sunday’s (May 18, 2008) Detroit Free Press about hizzoner’s self-dealing. “Kilpatrick helped friends get grants,” the Page One headline blazed. Subheads tell us, “He steered funds as state rep” and “Money also trickled down to his wife, records show.” Wait a minute. How old is this thing? Why, this story happened [...]
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