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.
When thousands of people looking to get housing and utility bill assistance assistance from the City of Detroit showed up at Cobo Hall Wednesday morning, chaos ensued. By 11:30 am, Mayor Dave Bing’s office was urging Detroiters not to go to Cobo Hall because the crowd was getting out of control. The Detroit Police gang [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed into law a bill authorizing the creation of a regional authority to run Cobo Hall and oversee a $300 million renovation of the aging facility. The bill is designed to keep the arena alive and keep the North American International Auto Show in the city of Detroit every year.
DETROIT — State lawmakers negotiating a bill package aimed at keeping the North American International Auto show at Detroit’s Cobo Convention Center are confident that a compromise will be reached by the end of the day Thursday, the Detroit Free Press reports, confirming a dispatch from Mayor Dave Bing’s Twitter feed from Wednesday night declaring: [...]
DETROIT — Michigan House lawmakers approved a bill package on Thursday that would lease the Detroit-owned Cobo Convention Center — home of the North American International Auto Show — to a regional authority.
The legislation calls for a 30-year lease of the riverside convention center to an authority with board members representing Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties in exchange for $280 million in expansion and renovation funds to upgrade Cobo in order to keep the auto show in Detroit. In recent months, as state and local officials have bickered over the ownership of Cobo, auto show organizers have been looking at venues outside the city that could host the annual expo.
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.”
DETROIT — While the first mayoral debate between businessman David Bing and interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. last month, allowed the two ample room to go after each other, the second, hosted Wednesday afternoon by the Detroit Economic Club, was a more staid affair, focused on the issues.
Since the Detroit mayoral primary, winning candidate and businessman Dave Bing has been off the political radar.
The Detroit City Council voted this morning to kill the deal that would turn Cobo Hall, the riverside convention center which hosts the annual North American International Auto Show, over to a five-person regional authority. The council voted 5-3 to retain Cobo Hall as property of the city of Detroit.
Wayne County executive Robert Ficano promoted the proposed Cobo Hall expansion deal at Saturday’s Michigan Democratic Party convention. Ficano warned that if the 2.4 million square foot Cobo Convention/Exhibition Center located on the banks of the Detroit River is not expanded, the North American International Auto Show will move to other cities. “16,000 jobs are [...]
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