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.
It appears that the corruption problems that have long plagued the city of Detroit may have spread to Romulus, where several police officers and the former chief of police are expected to face charges from the county prosecutor.
Shady deals involving city contracts and Kilpatrick appointees extend beyond what was described in this weeks federal racketeering indictment of Kilpatrick and associates, Charlie LeDuff of FOX 2 Detroit reports.
The Michigan Senate voted unanimously on Thursday for a bill that would prevent anyone convicted of a felony involving fraud or corruption from holding public office for 20 years following such a conviction. The ban would apply to any state or local elected official. This requires a constitutional amendment, so if the House votes for [...]
WXYZ reports that nearly the entire vice squad from the Detroit Police Department has been suspended due to allegations of a whole range of official misconduct and corruption.
The Michigan House on Wednesday passed three bills to help clean up political corruption and hold legislators responsible for attendance. The three bills would do the following:
Two police officers from Inkster, a former drug prosecutor from Wayne County and a former Wayne County Circuit Judge were arraigned in state court on Tuesday, charged with a range of felony misconduct relating to the prosecution of two alleged drug dealers in 2005:
Ask the average Detroiter where they think city money is being misspent and they’ll be quick to bring up shady contracts. It seems like accepted street knowledge that city and school officials are involved in iffy deals with contractors. So it’s not surprising a wire tap of city officials tipped off the feds that they [...]
While Sen. John McCain, the Republican nominee for president, and Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, spent the day on the campaign trail pumping up or slamming down the so-called Palin is a pig scandal — the U.S. Congress received a stunning series of three reports from the Department of the Interior’s Inspector General. Those [...]
John McCain has tried throughout his political career to earn the title Enemy of Earmarks — brave opponent of pork-barrel spending that sent federal money to fund some project that allowed politicians to tell their followers that they were bringing home the bacon to their districts. And when he introduced Sarah Palin as his running [...]
Bush official engaged in illegal discrimination A new report from the Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General’s office implicates former DOJ official Monica Goodling in illegal employment decisions, including one involving a former U.S. attorney from Michigan. The report, the result of a joint investigation of the DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) and the [...]
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