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 — Having secured another four years in office with an election victory Tuesday night, Mayor Dave Bing is continuing with business. One of the mayor’s pressing concerns is getting municipal unions to concede to major cuts to pay and benefits, something that has challenged the mayor since he was first elected in May and [...]
State Sen. Buzz Thomas (D-Detroit) slammed his fellow state lawmakers for taking so long to finalize the 2009/2010 budget in an interview on WDET’s radio program “Detroit Today” this afternoon. “This is embarrassing and we owe our citizens better,” he told Detroit Today’s Craig Fahle in an interview. Thomas said he would be “screaming loudly” [...]
DETROIT — Former deputy mayor and two-time Detroit mayoral contender Freman Hendrix showed up at the Detroit Department of Elections around 3 p.m. Tuesday, an hour before the deadline to file petitions for public office. Hendrix would not say what position he was filing for, though there has been some speculation that he’s taking a [...]
Stories have begun circulating about voter rolls being purged. Just to be on the safe side, it probably wouldn’t hurt to check online and make sure you’re registered. If you’re in Michigan, you can check by clicking here, and entering your zip code and birth date (Warning: checking here will not tell you what address you [...]
There’s less than a week before the October 6th deadline for voter registration. And we have only five weeks before election day on November 4th. With time running low, rumors are flying faster than ever about who can vote and who cannot. Some people are using the social networking site Facebook.com to host a growing string of [...]
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