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 — A company providing services specializing in transit for disabled riders is suing the city over what company representatives consider to be a breach of contract, including non-payment and the hiring of outside contractors despite an exclusive agreement with the Detroit Department of Transportation.
As part of an ongoing investigation into questionable real estate transactions, Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb announced Thursday that he plans to ask a judge to force testimony from those unwilling to cooperate with public hearings on the matter. Bobb said he wants a judge to compel Board of Education Member Anthony [...]
DETROIT—Last Friday was the date Mayor Dave Bing set to play hardball with city union leaders. Last month the newly re-elected mayor set Nov. 6 as the ultimate deadline for 50 of the cities bunion bargaining units to take a 10 percent pay cut through furlough days in addition to cuts in benefits and bonuses [...]
DETROIT — A group fighting to have city council members elected by districts filed an emergency appeal Monday after a judge ruled on Friday that the language of an amendment to eliminate at-large-only was “insufficient.” Election lawyer Mary Ellen Gurewitz filed the appeal with a request to expedite the decision on Monday morning in the Michigan Court of Appeals on behalf of Detroiters for Council by Districts, the organization that worked to put the language on the ballot.
DETROIT—An attorney representing a man who says he was a victim of an illegal cavity search wants the city’s law department to release all documents related the $700,000 in payouts made to two other men who said cops conducted cavity searches during separate traffic stops in 2006. According to the Detroit Free Press, Marvin Barnett, [...]
DETROIT — City Councilwoman Monica Conyers entered U.S. District Court downtown around 10 a.m. to plead guilty to bribery charges connected to the Synagro Technologies sludge hauling scandal, the Detroit Free Press reports. Conyers, who is married to U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr., is suspected of accepting more than $6,000 in exchange for a vote [...]
DETROIT — Diane Bukowski, a reporter for the African-American owned Michigan Citizen newspaper, faces sentencing today after being convicted of felony police obstruction last month in a situation where she was arrested at the scene of a high-speed police chase crash in northeast Detroit last November. Bukowski and others have labeled the prosecution as retribution [...]
When Dave Bing won Tuesday’s special mayoral election in Detroit, city council leaders had to go back to their original posts to allow interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. to return to his job on city council president. But Monica Conyers, who served as president in Cockrel’s absence, isn’t ready to give up her post as [...]
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