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 Mayor Dave Bing will officially challenge the U.S. Census finding that the city of Detroit — once the nation’s fifth largest — now has only 713,777 residents.
On Sunday, the Detroit Free Press published an editorial calling on Detroit Mayor David Bing to confront the AIDS problem in that city. The editorial notes that no chief executive of Michigan’s largest city has seriously addressed the issue since then-Mayor Dennis Archer in 2001. The Free Press says Bing should participate in the annual [...]
Protesting emergency service workers in Detroit warned today that layoffs slated for Thursday could leave the city with just 13-15 functioning ambulances. The Detroit News reports that under the budget that is set to take effect July 1, 33 EMS workers and 100 city police will lose their jobs, public services including childhood immunization will [...]
The HIV crisis in Washington, D.C. and Brooklyn, New York has been discussed all over the national media, but the continuing crisis in Detroit has barely gotten a mention. The problem is staggering, with over 50 percent of Detroit’s zip codes reporting HIV prevalence rates at three percent or higher, and one of those zip [...]
DETROIT — In front of a packed Fox Theater crowd in downtown Detroit, Mayor Dave Bing formally took the oath of office for a full four-year term and in his inaugural address declared “a new day” in the economically battered city.
A new slate of city leaders voted into office during multiple elections could help Detroit put the political scandals of the last few years behind the state’s largest city.
Michigan teenagers continue to become infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, at an alarming rate, Michigan health officials say. From a press release from the Michigan Department of Community Health in advance of Tuesday’s World AIDS Day events:
Journalist Diane Bukowski, who was convicted in May of two felonies related to police obstruction, got one step closer to getting a her conviction overturned this morning when a judge granted her a new hearing of her case. Wayne County Circuit Judge Michael Hathaway at first said he wasn’t sure if he could decide on [...]
FERNDALE– Charles Pugh, the recently elected Detroit City Council President, says he won’t back cuts to police or fire programs, public transportation or cuts to the city’s health department programs dealing with HIV/AIDS. “Everything else is on the table,” Pugh said.
FERNDALE — At a hearing to discuss national HIV/AIDS policy on Wednesday, incoming Detroit City Council President Charles Pugh said that the Motor City, which has recorded infection rates as high as those in hard-hit Uganda, needs more money to combat the “crisis” that is eating away at the city. Pugh pledged to be a “noisy voice” for those who lack political access and are battling the disease.
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