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.
Anyone reading the political tea leaves in relation to the coming budget battle in the state of Michigan knows that deep cuts are coming. The state is facing a $1.8 billion deficit, and newly minted Gov. Rick Snyder has said he will not approve or ask for any taxes to fill the gap. That means [...]
Tomorrow’s meeting of the Detroit City Council offers another opportunity for the city to chip away at the estimated $300 million budget deficit. This time employee benefits are set to be scaled back, according to a story in today’s Detroit Free Press. Specifically, new polices set for a vote will require employees to purchase generic [...]
DETROIT—Days after the Motor City won an award from a national public finance magazine for making a “Deal of the Year” that postponed payment on a $400 million bond, details of a year-late audit reveal what Detroit News reporter David Josar calls a “startling glimpses of how quickly the city is burning through cash, losing [...]
DETROIT — Union leaders, city council candidates and charter revision commission candidates are balking at Mayor Dave Bing’s proposal to privatize a sizable portion of the city government in order to reduce the flow of red ink.
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing says Detroiters need to accept changes brought by economic hardship or get left behind, according to an article in the Detroit Free Press this morning. One of the changes Bing discussed with the Free Press is the possibility of charging an entry fee to visit Belle Isle Park in order to [...]
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing met with city council challengers Thursday to start early in establishing a relationship between himself and the new incoming council candidates. Since Bing is largely expected to win in November after getting more than 70 percent of the vote in the August primary, he has the advantage of getting to know [...]
A proposal by Michigan House Republicans to privatize what’s left of the state’s juvenile justice system in order to save money has critics arguing that the plan wouldn’t achieve sizable savings and in some cases leave the state’s most dangerous incarcerated youths with no options for private-sector rehabilitation.
It’s Friday, the day that 113 bus drivers were slated for layoffs. But after bus riders protested the cuts by the hundreds, the layoff knife cut into other departments. Mayor Dave Bing announced today in a statement that employees from various departments not including Fire, Police, Water, and DDOT received layoff notices today, according to [...]
In a city were an estimated 33 percent of the population doesn’t own a car, a proposal to cut bus services which are the city’s only method of public transit isn’t going to be taken well. So it should come as no surprise that the first public hearing on a proposal that would eliminate Saturday [...]
The Detroit Free Press is reporting that Mayor Dave Bing wants to cut all Sunday bus service and shave hours from Saturday bus schedules in Detroit: [The Bing] administration is proposing eliminating Sunday bus service and stopping service at 6 p.m. on Saturdays as part of plan to cut services in a city that’s trying [...]
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