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.
[COMMENTARY] I was still trying to digest Eric Alterman’s long, thoughtful article in the March 31, 2008, New Yorker about the demise of American newspapers when I noticed the March 29, 2008, Detroit Free Press front page story from Mackinac Island. Mackinac Island in March? Who’d want to be there when there’s snow on the [...]
Sometimes small is big. And sometimes big is small. The steam rising from the Detroit Free Press’ revelation of the text messages between Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff and former paramour Christine Beatty has really roasted the mayor, what with allegations and now charges of perjury and the threat that [...]
Could Michigan’s oldest newspaper become a tabloid? Hey, it could be worse. The Detroit Free Press could wind up just as its top editors envision it — a skimpy rag for home subscribers who pay for it and something slightly more substantial as a freebie on the web. Hey, isn’t that what they’re doing now? [...]
Obituary time at the Detroit Free Press: That venerable promotional creature, the furry, goofy Yak is dead. Word from inside the Freep is that this popular creature – an educational feature aimed at kids, part of it contained in the comics – and the award-winning reporting that were part of the Yak persona have [...]
The monopoly that owns the News and Free Press in Detroit is looking to shoo 150 more workers out the door with buyouts similar to ones that ushered 110 workers into early retirement last November. The papers downsized by 5 percent. Sixteen left the editorial rooms of the Free Press, while the remainder exited from [...]
Tina Lam at the Detroit Free Press has a story today about how (this week) the Michigan United Conservation Clubs has thrown its “considerable political weight
[COMMENTARY] A week after a federal jury acquitted Geoffrey Fieger of charges that he used “straw donors” to cover more than a hundred grand he donated to the 2004 John Edwards presidential campaign, the Detroit Free Press finally says Fieger was wrong about one of the statements he made before the trial ended. Better late [...]
After virtually drumming Detroit’s mayor out of office, you’d think the town’s vigilante press would let up once in a while. Nope. The ever-watchful Detroit Free Press maybe thought they’d pound another nail in the coffin of this area by alleging in a May 27 story that Wayne County is nearly a lakeless patch of [...]
[COMMENTARY] Wonderful story in Sunday’s (May 18, 2008) Detroit Free Press about hizzoner’s self-dealing. “Kilpatrick helped friends get grants,” the Page One headline blazed. Subheads tell us, “He steered funds as state rep” and “Money also trickled down to his wife, records show.” Wait a minute. How old is this thing? Why, this story happened [...]
If there is indeed a Detroit Free Press cover-up (as hizzoner claims) in Detroit’s everlasting text message scandal, it is one Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick won’t enjoy hearing about. He’ll probably scream it’s illegal. Since when, as the mayor claims, is filing a request for government information illegal, anyway? Here’s what I mean by “cover-up”: It’s [...]
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