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.
On Sunday, the Detroit Free Press published an editorial calling on Detroit Mayor David Bing to confront the AIDS problem in that city. The editorial notes that no chief executive of Michigan’s largest city has seriously addressed the issue since then-Mayor Dennis Archer in 2001. The Free Press says Bing should participate in the annual [...]
FERNDALE– Charles Pugh, the recently elected Detroit City Council President, says he won’t back cuts to police or fire programs, public transportation or cuts to the city’s health department programs dealing with HIV/AIDS. “Everything else is on the table,” Pugh said.
In an interview on WJR AM 760 Tuesday morning, Michigan Attorney General and 2010 GOP gubernatorial hopeful Mike Cox said he believes that ultimately control of the Detroit Public Schools should rest in the office of the mayor. “I think ultimately the mayor should run the Detroit Public Schools, because voters need somebody to be [...]
DETROIT — Mayor Dave Bing will meet with City Council members this week discuss his plan to address the city’s ballooning budget and unpaid bills. A Detroit News report has confirmed that part of Bing’s plan to accomplish a 10 percent pay cut is through a 26 day unpaid furlough.
According to an article on MLive.com, Detroit’s former chief financial officer, Joe Harris, has told WJR-AM 760 that the city could be broke by December. Harris criticized Mayor David Bing for not laying off employees when he took office, a move Harris says would help close the city’s $100 million budget hole. As a result, [...]
DETROIT — One week after his communications chief suddenly resigned, Mayor Dave Bing appointed Karen Dumas, a public relations entrepreneur and journalist, as his interim public relations director according to an announcement from Bing’s office last week. But it was just a month ago that Dumas wasn’t that thrilled with Bing’s mayoral bid. In a [...]
DETROIT — Mayor David Bing announced at a press conference Wednesday that he is negotiating a deal that would lease the Cobo Convention Center to a regional authority that would in turn take over operation of the facility and fund the expansions needed to keep the center home of the North American International Auto Show. [...]
DETROIT — Newly elected Mayor Dave Bing won’t have as much competition in his race to secure a full mayoral term as had been anticipated. With top contenders such as City Council President Kenneth Cockrel Jr., former Deputy Mayor Freman Hendrix, and Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans out of the race, Bing’s most well-known opponent [...]
Mayor-elect David Bing will be sworn in as Detroit’s new mayor later today. The 3 p.m. ceremony will be held at the city’s Department of Elections office. City Clerk Janice Winfrey conduct the oath of office. Bing will serve as Detroit’s third mayor in eight months after beating interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr., who is [...]
Detroit has a new mayor in David Bing, but due to time constraints there probably won’t be a new budget. Bing will be forced to work with the budget former interim mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. presented because he will have only have three weeks to review that budget before it’s due.
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