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 — If a recent poll is correct, city council candidate Charles Pugh has a good chance of being the next city council president, or the candidate with the highest number of votes. With the Nov. 3 election just three weeks away, the poll, conducted by East Lansing based Practical Political Consulting, put Pugh ten [...]
Over the past couple of weeks, the Detroit Free Press has been hosting daily live chats with candidates for city council and the charter revision commission on their website. The chats are held with the candidates themselves, not campaign staff, which is part of the appeal: voters get to ask candidates questions directly to candidates [...]
DETROIT — In August, city voters approved a ballot proposal that would require a majority of Detroit City Council members be elected from specific districts. But this week, the council voted to send legal questions about the ballot language back to the attorney general for review, raising questions about whether the city council is trying to kill the proposal.
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing met with city council challengers Thursday to start early in establishing a relationship between himself and the new incoming council candidates. Since Bing is largely expected to win in November after getting more than 70 percent of the vote in the August primary, he has the advantage of getting to know [...]
DETROIT — It’s primary election day — again. Michigan’s largest city has had its share of elections this year with the special mayoral election primary in February and the special election in May. By now, the 14 percent of voters that came out in both of those elections will likely be the only ones voting in today’s general election non-partisan primary. It would be tedious to go through each candidate individually — there are 235 names on the ballot. And nobody, not even the city clerk, really knows details about the full slate. So we’ll try to keep it simple.
Days before Detroit’s general election primary, some candidates are pulling ahead in the polls. Former journalist Charles Pugh leads the pack of 167 candidates with 65 percent voter support, according to a poll conducted by political consultant Mark Grebner. Coming in at a close second is current City Council President Kenneth Cockrel Jr.
DETROIT — It’s no secret that the city is short on cash. So it must not come as a surprise that those running for public office are also strained financially. During tough economic times in a city where many residents are drowning in bankruptcy, fighting foreclosure and barely putting food on the table, campaign fundraising [...]
DETROIT — The Southeast Michigan and statewide chapter of the Sierra Club Thursday announced its endorsement of 13 Detroit City Council candidates in the August 4th primary election. The Sierra Club, the nation’s largest grassroots environmental organization, praised its 13 selections for their “outstanding” commitment to environmental issues in a press release.
DETROIT — A major stakeholder in the city’s controversial trash incinerator wants to keep the 20-year old east side facility burning for at least another year. According to The Detroit News, the contract between the city and the incinerator’s majority stakeholder, Energy Investors Fund may allow the nation’s largest trash incinerator to keep burning trash [...]
DETROIT — Mayor Dave Bing will meet with City Council members this week discuss his plan to address the city’s ballooning budget and unpaid bills. A Detroit News report has confirmed that part of Bing’s plan to accomplish a 10 percent pay cut is through a 26 day unpaid furlough.
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