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.
Journalist Diane Bukowski, who was convicted in May of two felonies related to police obstruction, got one step closer to getting a her conviction overturned this morning when a judge granted her a new hearing of her case. Wayne County Circuit Judge Michael Hathaway at first said he wasn’t sure if he could decide on [...]
DETROIT — Diane Bukowski, a reporter for the African-American owned Michigan Citizen newspaper, faces sentencing today after being convicted of felony police obstruction last month in a situation where she was arrested at the scene of a high-speed police chase crash in northeast Detroit last November. Bukowski and others have labeled the prosecution as retribution [...]
LANSING — The House Judiciary Committee heard nearly five hours of testimony on Tuesday about proposed legislation to change the way juveniles who commit murder are punished. Right now, juveniles age 17 and under who are charged with and convicted of first-degree murder face a life-without-parole sentence. The bill would change that, allowing a parole board to take testimony and consider releasing convicted youth after 15 years.
DETROIT — Following the conviction of a local journalist for felony police obstruction, Congressman John Conyers, the Detroit Democrat who chairs the powerful House Judiciary Committee, said that his office would be taking a very careful look at the case, which has been cited as an example of retaliatory prosecution of a reporter known for her work documenting police brutality and other justice issues in Michigan’s largest city.
The Committee to Protect Journalists, a global press freedom organization, has issued a statement of concern over the May 1 conviction of Michigan Citizen reporter Diane Bukowski on felony police obstruction charges. Bukowski was arrested in Detroit while covering the scene of a deadly police chase and crash on Nov. 4. “We are monitoring the [...]
The conviction of Diane Bukowski on felony police obstruction charges last week has prompted warnings about a chilling of press freedom as well as calls for a federal investigation of the Wayne County prosecutor’s office. One state lawmaker said the conviction is a “travesty of justice” and a pay-back from Bukowski’s reporting on police brutality in Detroit.
DETROIT — Immediately following her conviction for allegedly obstructing police in November, Michigan Citizen reporter Diane Bukowski spoke out at the Michigan Campaign for Justice law forum, calling her conviction a “political attack.” Bukowski said police lied to the jury. “Five state troopers committed perjury on the stand in my case,” she told the group [...]
Diane Bukowski, the Michigan Citizen reporter who was arrested Nov. 4 while documenting the aftermath of a police chase that left two people dead, has been convicted of two felony counts of obstructing police, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Diane Bukowski, the Michigan Citizen freelance reporter who has covered police brutality issues in Detroit for ten years, is scheduled for trial on April 27 on two felony police obstruction charges. Bukowski was arrested by state police as she documented the aftermath of an Election Day police chase that resulted in the deaths of motorcyclist [...]
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