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 — The Motor City wants change. At least that was the message sent from the polls on Tuesday night’s general municipal election.
“My hometown isn’t there anymore,” a returning Detroiter wrote in 1989, two decades before the hub of the city’s industry, the big three automotive producers, would face bankruptcy. Larry Livermore, who had lived in Detroit and was visiting after nearly ten years away from his hometown, was shocked at what he saw back then. From [...]
DETROIT — “Detroit’s decline has been going on for a long while.” That’s what Time magazine had to say about Detroit in 1961. Now it’s 2009 and Time magazine is still featuring special reports about Detroit’s hardships. Granted, a few things have changed since 1961 and not for the better. Over the past half century, [...]
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing says Detroiters need to accept changes brought by economic hardship or get left behind, according to an article in the Detroit Free Press this morning. One of the changes Bing discussed with the Free Press is the possibility of charging an entry fee to visit Belle Isle Park in order to [...]
Flanked by union heavyweights like Teamsters President James P. Hoffa and United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama addressed a crowd of more than 10,000 at Detroit’s riverfront square, Hart Plaza, on Labor Day morning.
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