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 Mayor Dave Bing said Wednesday that the city may run out of cash by February and he may be interested in serving as Emergency Manager if the governor decides to appoint one.
Most Michigan city officials dread almost nothing more than the appointment of an emergency manager to oversee their affairs, especially now that those overseers have virtually limitless authority. But Detroit Mayor Dave Bing is threatening to request one if unions don’t accept his demands.
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing is warning that the city could be taken over by an Emergency Manager if the city council does not approve his budget which includes $200 million in proposed cuts.
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing will officially challenge the U.S. Census finding that the city of Detroit — once the nation’s fifth largest — now has only 713,777 residents.
Detroit Public Schools emergency financial manager Robert Bobb’s contract expires at the end of June and Mayor Dave Bing is asking the Snyder administration not to appoint one of Bing’s own top aides to replace him because it would send the wrong message to the school board.
In his state of the city speech last night Detroit Mayor Dave Bing said that Gov. Rick Snyder’s proposed cuts to state revenue sharing could be devastating for Detroit.
Wrecking crews in Detroit are tearing down 300 to 400 houses each month as part of a Bing Administration plan to demolish 10,000 abandoned buildings by 2013.
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.
Beginning next year Detroit’s city government will begin using incentives to get people to leave the city’s emptiest neighborhoods and move into seven to nine population centers that will receive investment, the Bing administration announced this week. The city has not yet announced which neighborhoods will be targeted for investment and it has warned that [...]
Leaders for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees are responding to the Detroit City Council endorsement of Mayor Dave Bing’s plan to impose a 10 percent wage cut on union members through a series of furlough days, arguing that the cuts will diminish city services. The Detroit Free Press reports:
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