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.
DETROIT — Unlike most other states where casino gambling is legal, the Motor City’s big three casinos are not required to disclose the average payout percentage of thousands of lucrative slot machines.
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.
A big majority of voters support a smoking ban in all workplaces, including casinos, according to a new poll released Monday. The EPIC-MRA poll, commissioned by Campaign for Smokefree Air, said 64 percent they support a smoking ban. The issue has been bandied about inside the legislature for months and is scheduled to have a [...]
The mayoral hopeful has some unique — and some downright strange — ideas about how to make keep the city growing during what he calls “emergency times.”
The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down an appeal petition in a case involving a proposed Indian casino in the West Michigan community of Gun Lake. The move effectively ends the legal battle between the Gun Lake Tribe and a group called Michigan Gambling Opposition, which has tried for years to block the building of [...]
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 298-121 against a bill that would have authorized a land swap arrangement with two Indian tribes and allow them to build casinos in the Lower Peninsula. The land swap was intended to settle a century-old dispute over 110 acres of land in the Upper Peninsula by allowing the two [...]
Economist is a fellow at think tank funded indirectly by Phillip Morris and R.J. Reynolds [COMMENTARY] Pressure from the MGM Grand, Greektown and MotorCity casinos is working to swing the Democratic House leadership against the popular smoking ban bill. On May 22, in deference to pressure, Speaker of the House Andy Dillon, D-Redford Township, began [...]
Detroit casinos say they would lose 15 to 20 percent of their smoking customers to Native-run casinos even though the nearest one — Saganing Eagle's Landing Casino in Standish — is 142 miles from the MGM Grand. In what may have been a Machiavellian maneuver, Senate Republicans eager to look good to their constituents but [...]
The Natural Resources Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives has approved two bills that will allow the building of casinos by Native American tribes in Romulus and Port Huron. The bills involve a land dispute that goes back 150 years and could only be resolved by an act of Congress. Two tribes from the [...]
Averting a strike of Detroit’s three casinos, workers at Motor City Casino reached a tentative deal with the Detroit Casino Council. The Free Press reports that “The Detroit Casino Council, made up of members of the United Auto Workers, Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union, International Union of Operating Engineers, Teamsters and Carpenters, represents approximately [...]
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