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 — 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 — Interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. broke a state law this morning when he went in to cast his ballot in the special mayoral election wearing a yellow “Ken Cockrel Corps” t-shirt. Cockrel violated a state law that prohibits campaigning within 100 feet of a building where people are casting ballots. The law considers [...]
DETROIT — So far, not many voters have not cast their ballots in the city’s special mayoral election. The low turnout may reflect how voters prioritize the special election, which is being held to determine who will serve the remainder of ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s term. Or perhaps voters are not excited about the choice of [...]
DETROIT — With only three days until Tuesday’s special mayoral election, businessman David Bing and interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. have this weekend booked with rallies and door-to-door canvassing. To kick off election weekend each candidate scored big endorsements on Friday. Bing got the support from former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey and [...]
With less than a week before next Tuesday’s special mayoral election in Detroit, the tide may be turning against the once-favored candidate, businessman David Bing. A daily tracking poll from political consultant Mark Grebner — successful in estimating the winner of the February primary — is putting interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. 9 points ahead: [...]
The Detroit News editorial board picked businessman David Bing as the candidate best suited to serve as mayor of Detroit for the next eight months. The editorial asserts that Bing will offer Detroit a “fresh start” and will clean up the smears that Detroit’s local and national image has endured since the Kilpatrick text scandal.
With just two weeks until Detroit’s special mayoral election, the two rival campaigns are heating up. And since pollsters are calling it a close election, it might not take much to swing the vote. That’s a good sign for interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr., who narrowly trailed Bing by two percentage points (27-29 percent) in [...]
Jim Edmondson, the campaign manager for Kenneth Cockrel Jr.’s mayoral campaign in Detroit, said that to his knowledge, all the protesters who showed up to protest the campaign headquarters of businessman Dave Bing on Sunday afternoon were volunteers and were not paid. On Sunday, a Cockrel campaign volunteer, who asked not to be named, told [...]
DETROIT — Supporters of the city’s interim mayor held a Sunday afternoon protest in front of the campaign offices of his opponent in the May 5 special election, urging businessman Dave Bing to reveal the names of those he’s appointed to a crisis management team that would help him run the financially troubled city should he be elected.
Detroit’s interim mayor, Kenneth Cockrel Jr., and businessman David Bing racked up racked up more endorsements this week in advance of the May 5 special election to fill out the remainder of ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s term.
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