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.
The budgetary problems of some Michigan municipalities and school districts justify anti-democratic measures, the GR Press argues today in an editorial supporting expansive new powers for state-appointed Emergency Managers.
The recently approved House bill to expand powers available to emergency managers treads on the democratic process by allowing appointees to dismiss elected officials, according to the Detroit News.
Today the Grand Rapids Press joined the Detroit News in calling for more financial disclosure from groups that sponsor television issue ads. “Michigan’s current campaign finance laws are woefully inadequate in an age of unlimited corporate and union spending,“ the GR Press writes. “What’s needed is more disclosure, so citizens know exactly who is paying [...]
The Council on American Islamic Relations in Detroit has released autopsy photographs taken of a Detroit Imam shot to death by federal authorities late last year. Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah was shot 20 times by federal authorities during an attempt to arrest him. Police say he fired first.
In a story previewing the fast-approaching North American International Auto Show in today’s Detroit News, reporter Robert Snell notes that Obama administration officials say the president isn’t planning on attending the show. But NAIAS chairman Doug Fox says he thinks there’s nonetheless a “good chance” he’ll stop by. Not sure who to believe? Me neither, [...]
The Detroit News seems to be having a difficult time deciding whether passengers at Metro Airport were confronted by unusually long lines due to heightened security measures in the wake of an attempted terrorist attack on a flight from Amsterdam on Christmas day, or whether they were greeted by surprisingly short lines in the wake [...]
It’s often touted as the best hope to resurrect manufacturing in Michigan — large-scale production and assembly of lithium ion battery packs for the hybrid or pure electric vehicles of the future. According to news from the state Capitol, lawmakers in Lansing want to dangle the carrot of tax credits in front of a several [...]
Just when you thought the sorry saga over the bargain-basement sale of the Pontiac Silverdome was over, comes even more legal maneuvers. Except they aren’t nearly as cheap, according to Pontiac emergency financial manager Fred Leeb. “Every day we are in court it costs us — legal fees, time which could be spent in a [...]
The Detroit News’ Mike Wilkinson has an eye-opening story on how unemployment rates generally under-report true joblessness — and specifically how this is happening in Michigan’s largest city. The story points out that Detroit’s official unemployment rate of 27 percent (as of October) may be dramatically under-counting those without work in the economically-strapped city. The [...]
Democratic legislators who have found themselves besieged by angry protesters screaming at them during townhall meetings and calling them Nazis are not the only ones upset about such tactics. The conservative Detroit News had an editorial on Monday condemning those who disrupt such gatherings and quoting Republican Rep. Thad McCotter doing the same:
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