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.
The city of Detroit finally submitted a state-required audit for the 2008-2009 fiscal year last week, and it was only six months late. As the Detroit Free Press notes, this is actually an improvement; it’s been far later the previous two years. The delayed audits have cost Detroit tens of millions of dollars in state [...]
The Detroit Free Press examined the publicly available records in the controversial lawsuit against the city of Detroit by three of Tamara “Strawberry” Greene’s children. The lawsuit has become a political weapon in the primary for the GOP nomination for governor, with Attorney General Mike Cox being targeted from the revelations in the lawsuit’s affidavit [...]
Mayor Dave Bing is going to ask the Detroit City Council to approve a debt reduction plan that includes selling $250 million worth of bonds to pay down some of the city’s $300 million in already existing debt. The Detroit Free Press reports:
Over at WalletPop, they’ve looked closer into a big recent auction of foreclosed properties in Detroit, and it’s an even bleaker situation than first reported. The Wayne County auction of some 9,000 repossessed properties last week resulted in more than 80 percent of them failing to draw a single bid. And that’s even with the [...]
The Detroit City Council voted on Tuesday to approve the sale of $94 million in bonds backed by future property tax receipts in order to keep the city running. The vote was 6-1, with only councilwoman JoAnn Watson voting against the proposal.
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and leaders of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which represents about a quarter of all city employees, continue to be far apart in negotiations, the Detroit News reports. Bing says more layoffs will be necessary due to the union’s failure to accept other concessions in their contract.
Monday marked the beginning of what Time Inc. is calling Assignment Detroit, a year-long project to use their full range of media outlets to chronicle the life of the city of Detroit. This is what the media conglomerate was preparing for when they bought a house in Detroit and began moving reporters and editors there [...]
As if the city of Detroit needed more scandal to worry about, federal criminal charges were filed against an inspector from the Detroit Health Department for accepting bribes to look the other way rather than reporting lead contamination in homes and businesses. Rather than taking steps to ameliorate lead contamination, the inspector would charge the [...]
While the state of Michigan has the highest unemployment rate of any state in the nation, the city of Detroit leads the way for cities. For the month of July, the unemployment rate in Detroit stood at a staggering 28.9% — and that’s probably undercounted in the same way all unemployment figures are due to [...]
The Detroit Free Press reports that Time magazine has purchased a house in the city of Detroit and plans to move in reporters from its many different publications as they report on the city’s many contentious issues in the numerous publications the media giant owns.
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