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 on documents they’ve obtained from the ongoing corruption investigation into Detroit politics which show Rayford Jackson, the Synagro executive now in prison for bribing city officials to get a sludge-hauling contract, listing all of the various political insiders who demanded money from him to get the contract passed by the [...]
DETROIT — On Tuesday, the city council voted to pay future city charter revision commissioners $50 per meeting. The nine commissioners, who will be elected on Nov. 3 will be responsible for updating the city’s governing document. Due to economic hardships, the payments are 33 percent less than former revision commissioners earned in previous years. [...]
DETROIT — Back in January, before city workers were threatened with mass layoffs and residents dependent on public transportation faced the prospect of bus service elimination, the issue that sparked the most passion was whether Michigan’s largest city should retain or sell key city assets. Now, with little protest from city council members and activists, a plan to sell of a key piece of Detroit’s water system has been OK’d.
Detroit City Councilwoman Barbara-Rose Collins announced Friday that she will withdraw her bid to regain her seat on city council. Collins, 70, has worked in government for 40 years. In that time she has served on the Detroit Public School Board, was the majority whip of the U.S. House of Representatives, and most recently on [...]
Interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. has thrown his support behind a new citizen-driven campaign to change how the Detroit City Council is elected.
A signature drive is underway to put an electoral reform on November’s ballot that would make all but two city council seats tied to specific districts where the representative member must reside, as opposed to the current system of electing nine council members from the city at-large.
Isn’t it amazing how some people are blessed with the ability to avoid near-certain political or social death, re-inventing themselves so they can let loose their bag of tricks in some new venue? I’m thinking about Barbara-Rose Collins, vaulted into headlines recently when she defended besieged Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick as the majority of her [...]
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