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.
It didn’t take long for Democrats in the 8th Congressional District to start shopping for a replacement candidate after Kande Ngalamulume announced he was done. As a result, a Facebook group was formed to recruit outgoing Gov. Jennifer Granholm.
Kande Ngalamulume has ended his Democratic campaign to unseat incumbent Republican Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Brighton). WLNS, the CBS affiliate in Lansing, reports Ngalamulume announced his decision by email.
The campaign of former U.S. Rep. Joe Schwarz and a Republican political action group have agreed to pay $5,000 in fines related to an FEC complaint that the two improperly coordinated during the heated 2006 Republican primary in the 7th Congressional District against Tim Walberg.
DETROIT — Sept. 11, 2007, was a good day Gary Brown, the ex-police chief who blew the whistle on ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s affair. That day, Brown and his colleague, police officer Harold Nelthorpe, became millionaires. Brown and Nelthorpe won $6.5 million in a settlement with the city after they were fired by Kilpatrick for getting [...]
With less than a week before next Tuesday’s special mayoral election in Detroit, the tide may be turning against the once-favored candidate, businessman David Bing. A daily tracking poll from political consultant Mark Grebner — successful in estimating the winner of the February primary — is putting interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. 9 points ahead: [...]
Jim Edmondson, the campaign manager for Kenneth Cockrel Jr.’s mayoral campaign in Detroit, said that to his knowledge, all the protesters who showed up to protest the campaign headquarters of businessman Dave Bing on Sunday afternoon were volunteers and were not paid. On Sunday, a Cockrel campaign volunteer, who asked not to be named, told [...]
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