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.
[COMMENTARY] Last night at 12:35 a.m. former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was released from jail after 99 days inside. His scandalous tenure as Mayor brought him into the national spotlight with years’ worth of sensational stories of salacious text messages that described a dramatic affair supplemented by rumors of a wild party.
The New York Times reports that major shifts in policy and emphasis are expected at the Justice Department as Obama’s people take over and Bush’s people leave town. Most of those changes are good ones, particularly the focus on restoring the rule of law on torture, FISA and other matters. But then I see this [...]
This is a blog column, and one thing that blogs do well is ponder the questions while not having the answers in hand. A question that’s long been on my mind has been about predatory subprime lending in Michigan and its adverse impact on this state, particularly on economically disadvantaged groups. We’ve noted here at [...]
We’ve entered the last few hours of the Bush administration, where requests for clemency and pardon could happen at any moment between now and noon when President-elect Barack Obama takes office. Although we have no indications as to which pardons or commutations may be granted, we know they’ll be relatively few since President Bush has [...]
Over the last several months as prospects for Michigan’s auto industry looked grim and grimmer, a number of people suggested to me that the problem was a lack of “cool.” All the auto industry needed was a visionary like Apple Inc.’s Steve Jobs to turn things around, to make the kinds of American cars that [...]
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