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.
LANSING — Michigan State University College Democrats are furious with the university’s student paper for a staff editorial published Tuesday supporting cuts to the Michigan Promise scholarship fund. In The State News, editors opined that eliminating the Michigan Promise Scholarship is a necessary evil.
Michigan’s jobless rate soared to 14.1 percent in May, while the rest of the country saw an unemployment rate of 9.4 percent, up one half a percent from April, according to the Detroit News. The numbers are based on a data released by the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth.
While officials from the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News were sharing their “good news” this morning about better-than-expected increases in single-copy sales and Web traffic, the Free Press, owned by Gannett, was also finalizing lay offs of about 10 percent of its work force. Late Thursday morning, Free Press Editor Paul Anger sent [...]
The Detroit News editorial board picked businessman David Bing as the candidate best suited to serve as mayor of Detroit for the next eight months. The editorial asserts that Bing will offer Detroit a “fresh start” and will clean up the smears that Detroit’s local and national image has endured since the Kilpatrick text scandal.
Aside from the earth-shaking changes coming to General Motors and Chrysler this week, another historic epoch begins for metro Detroit. Today the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News stopped home delivery to millions of subscribers in a bid to revamp its business model in a marketplace where newspapers are either severely distressed, heading into bankruptcy [...]
Three respected Detroit news publications have announced their endorsements for next Tuesday’s special mayoral election. Here’s who chose who and why: The Detroit Free Press endorsed Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans, indicating that his long career in fighting crime makes him an “experienced leader” ready to take on the city’s biggest problem: public safety. The [...]
[COMMENTARY] Last night at 12:35 a.m. former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was released from jail after 99 days inside. His scandalous tenure as Mayor brought him into the national spotlight with years’ worth of sensational stories of salacious text messages that described a dramatic affair supplemented by rumors of a wild party.
Detroit News editorial page editor Nolan Finley writes in his blog
We’ve been hearing a lot of rumors about impending major changes at Detroit’s newspapers for months, from seasoned veterans and from industry insiders, and have seen what appear to be leaked versions of future online editions and subscriber sites. The shoe finally dropped this morning — and it’s a big one.
Of the 14 candidates in the running for Mayor of Detroit, only three were invited to the first mayoral debate forcing the eleven other candidates to find other avenues to inform the public on their agendas. One of the eleven that was not invited to debate was Nicholas Hood III, who has started campaigning the [...]
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