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.
U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick will now join her office manager in testifying before the federal grand jury investigating political corruption in Detroit. The legislator has now been summoned before the grand jury herself, the Detroit Free Press reports. It is not known at this time what the subject of that testimony will be. The [...]
The Associated Press reports that a high-ranking staff member for Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick has been summoned to testify before a federal grand jury in Detroit investigating corruption in the city. Cheeks Kilpatrick is the mother of disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who is a major target of that investigation. It is not known [...]
Embattled incumbent Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks-Kilpatrick, mother of ousted and disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, will face a challenge in the August Democratic primary from State Sen. Hansen Clarke. Kilpatrick, who was recently cleared of ethics charges by the House ethics committee over two trips she accepted to a Caribbean trade summit, has not yet [...]
With the Obama administration in power, an Indian tribe from the Upper Peninsula is submitting a new application for an off-reservation casino to be located in Romulus. U.S. Rep. John Dingell, who represents that city, is also seeking approval of the project, which was rejected by Congress in June 2008.
HAMTRAMCK — U.S. Rep. John Conyers on Monday night declined to discuss the findings of a recent Denno Norr poll that showed he and Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks-Kilpatrick would lose to hypothetical opponents if elections for their seats were held today. “It didn’t show that, that’s the irony of it,” replied Conyers when asked about the [...]
Two big names in Detroit politics could be facing serious trouble next year if they run for re-election. And their names — Conyers and Kilpatrick — are their biggest liabilities.
A group of 27 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, including two from Michigan, sent a letter on Monday to President Obama asking him to declare a moratorium on discharges from the military based on the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy. The full text of the letter is below the fold:
LANSING — With the foreclosure crisis continuing unabated, auto industry giants dealing with bankruptcies and too many uninsured Americans, around 1,000 people rallied at the state Capitol on Monday to call for decisive action on these issues from the nation’s leaders. The rally, organized by Lansing Mayor Virgil Bernero and civil rights leader Rev. Jesse [...]
Former state Rep. Mary Waters resigned from her post at the Wayne County prosecutor’s office last month after her name was tied to a federal investigation, but it won’t stop her from running for a congressional seat.
Two of Michigan’s newly elected Democratic congressmen are wasting no time raising loads of money to protect themselves from Republican challenges in 2010. New filings with the Federal Election Commission show U.S. Reps. Gary Peters and Mark Schauer have raised more than any other House member from Michigan in the three-month old election cycle.
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