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.
Following up on a June surprise, Michigan House Speaker Pro Tem Pam Byrnes on Wednesday announced she had introduced legislation to roll back a 2004 constitutional amendment which bans same-sex marriage in the state.
DETROIT — The Motor City wants change. At least that was the message sent from the polls on Tuesday night’s general municipal election.
DETROIT — The 88,704 votes Charles Pugh won — nearly 10 percent of the vote overall — locked up first place in the at-large city council contest, and with it the added distinction of becoming the first openly gay council president in the city’s history.
DETROIT — After a nearly yearlong election spree spurred by ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s resignation, city residents have reached the grand election finale. Tuesday’s municipal election will be the fourth election day voters will have faced in the span of 10 months. Low turnout due to voter fatigue and voter apathy plagued the special election and the regular Aug. 4 primary, with just 14 percent of voters casting a ballot.
On Sunday, the Detroit Free Press rounded out its election endorsements with something predictable, but a couple surprises too. The Motor City’s major daily newspaper’s endorsement of incumbent Mayor Dave Bing’s bid for a full, four-year term was strongly argued even if it was expected.
DETROIT — City council candidate Charles Pugh is facing foreclosure on his downtown condominium as he has fallen behind on payments to his $400,000 mortgage, the Detroit Free Press reports. Pugh quit his jobs at WJBK-TV (FOX 2 news) and at WJLB-FM (97.9) this spring to focus on his run for city council and since [...]
As 18 candidates compete for 9 seats on the Detroit City Council, a couple of incumbents on the board are falling behind in the polls and face weak prospects for winning reelection. The Detroit News reports on the results of a recent poll taken by Mark Grebner:
There were no big surprises in Tuesday night’s primary election results posted on the local Fox 2 News website. As predicted there was a low turnout — about 15 percent according to the City Clerk’s office. The usual turnout in Detroit for the August primary is about 20 percent. But voter fatigue from the two [...]
DETROIT — Michigan’s largest city is short on a lot of things, but candidates for public office isn’t one of them. With 167 Detroit City Council hopefuls and 49 gunning for seats on the new City Charter Revision Commission, the Aug. 4 primary ballot could pass as a short novel.
Time is running out for the nearly 500 people who pulled petitions to run for Detroit City Council. The deadline to file those petitions is today at 4 p.m. As of last week Friday, only 94 actually had filed, according to the Detroit Free Press. All of the current council members who are running for [...]
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