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.
Overlooked in Wednesday’s Detroit mayoral debate was a small question about a big change in the way the City Council is elected.
Kenneth Cockrel Jr. is already Detroit’s mayor and he wants to keep it that way. That was the takeaway impression from Wednesday’s debate between the interim mayor and businessman Dave Bing who are running to finish ex-mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s term during a May 5 special election.
Detroit’s interim mayor, Kenneth Cockrel Jr., and businessman Dave Bing will square off for the first time tonight in a television debate broadcast on WADL-TV. With less than six weeks left until the May 5 special election to fill out the remainder of ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s term, here are a few things to watch for [...]
The Detroit News reports that Detroit mayoral candidate David Bing will not debate interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. on television next week because Cockrel won’t release his personal finances. Bing said the only way he would debate Cockrel is if the mayor disclosed his finances, as Bing has done. Instead of a debate format, Bing [...]
The third and final televised Detroit mayoral debate of the primary season aired Tuesday night on WADL-TV Channel 38. This time the candidates chosen in WADL’s random drawing included Jeroll Sanders, Duane Montgomery, Warren Evans and Joe Holt.
Turnout at Tuesday night’s Detroit mayoral debate showed that public interest is ramping up, but many in the crowd found themselves ‘disappointed’ by the crop of candidates.
Detroit’s WADL-TV Channel 38 will host the second televised mayoral debate of the special election at 8:00 p.m. this evening. The candidates were chosen in a random draw after controversy arose regarding the method by which sponsors chose the candidates for the previous mayoral debate.
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