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 new Detroit City Council, with five newly elected members, had its first official meeting on Tuesday, making assignments to several key city boards on which councilors sit and considering a measure that would cut their own pay — and that of Mayor Bing and the city clerk. The Detroit News reports:
DETROIT — If a recent poll is correct, city council candidate Charles Pugh has a good chance of being the next city council president, or the candidate with the highest number of votes. With the Nov. 3 election just three weeks away, the poll, conducted by East Lansing based Practical Political Consulting, put Pugh ten [...]
DETROIT — With Election Day less than two months away, candidate forums are becoming very common. But with waning voter interest and low community participation, these gatherings are often predictable and audience members consist mostly of campaign staff and family members of candidates. Maybe that’s why a forum earlier this week that allowed school children [...]
DETROIT—According to Mayor Dave Bing’s top administrator Charles Beckham, 113 bus drivers will be laid off on Friday. Among them are the drivers booked for weekend routes. With the city bus system 113 drivers short, city officials are still have not decided how the schedules will change. At a special city council meeting on Tuesday [...]
Time is running out for the nearly 500 people who pulled petitions to run for Detroit City Council. The deadline to file those petitions is today at 4 p.m. As of last week Friday, only 94 actually had filed, according to the Detroit Free Press. All of the current council members who are running for [...]
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