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 — 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.
A bill OK’d by Michigan House and Senate lawmakers early Friday morning that would renovate and expand Detroit’s Cobo Convention Center is now on its way to the desk of Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who is expected to sign it, ending months of drama over control of the aging facility. The legislative deal, which would lease [...]
DETROIT — Businessman and former NBA star David Bing became the new mayor of Detroit Tuesday night with a 52-48 percent victory over interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. in a special election to fill the remaining months of ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s term.
Bing said he’s ready for Detroit’s rough-and-tumble politics: “I’m not a novice to controversy.”
The deal that would shift the ownership of the Cobo Convention Center from the city of Detroit to a five-member regional authority was dealt a final blog on Friday when the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that Detroit’s interim mayor, Kenneth Cockrel Jr. did not have the legal authority to veto a Detroit City Council [...]
Wayne County Circuit Judge Isidore Torres ruled Thursday that Detroit interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr.’s veto of a city council resolution rejecting a new plan for Cobo Hall is unconstitutional. Torres ruled that the state law enacted to allow transfer of Cobo from Detroit to a regional authority allows the city council to disapprove of [...]
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