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.
A new study finds Detroit and Flint both in the top five most dangerous American cities. St. Louis, MO is number one on the list; Camden, NJ is number two; Detroit and Flint are three and four, respectively. Oakland, CA comes in at number five. The study is based on the number of violent crimes [...]
Though violent crime is down overall by 24 percent according to the most recent FBI Unified Crime Report, Saginaw, Michigan — for the seventh year in a row — has been ranked the most violent city with a population over 50,000. There were 2.3 violent crimes per 100 people during 2009. Flint, Detroit and Pontiac [...]
GM’s bankruptcy created confusion over who would pay for cleanup at 90 contaminated sites around the country, including 47 here in Michigan. Yesterday the White House announced that it would address this problem by creating an $800 million trust fund to be used for environmental cleanup and demolition at the sites. Speaking from a conference [...]
It only took three years, $1 million in rental payments and a visit by the director of the Department of Human Services himself for workers at the Pierson Road Department of Human Services offices to get permission to move out of a building hampered by leaking roofs, mold and mushrooms growing from carpets. The Flint [...]
The Flint Journal has an interesting article about how Detroit and Flint (and Saginaw, to a lesser degree) are looking at how to shrink their cities in the wake of plummeting population, but are taking different routes to that end. But Detroit is looking to force the issue with reluctant residents, while Flint is not:
Former Flint interim Police Chief David Dicks was sentenced in federal court today to six months of home confinement for obtaining federal money through fraud. In October Dicks admitted that he had accepted nearly $47,000 in pay for a no-show job at a security company with federal contracts that was run by his father. Detroit [...]
A new study from the University of Michigan provides a great deal of information on the patterns of foreclosed and abandoned properties in Flint, data that could be very important to the city and county in future plans to shrink and realign the city limits. The Flint Journal reports:
An Owosso man who was gunned down while standing in front of Owosso High School protesting abortion has been named the Operation Rescue “Person of the Year.” James Pouillion, 63, was a well known face in both Owosso and Flint for his anti-abortion protests. He was allegedly gunned down by Harlan Drake. Drake has been [...]
A Fenton Township woman is accusing a well known Flint doctor of performing a forced abortion on her. The Flint Journal reported Sunday that 20-year-old Cailtin Bruce accuses Abraham Hodari and an assistant of holding her down while they removed her fetus in April of 2008. Hodari contends Bruce expressed misgivings about the procedure well [...]
An AIDS service organization in Flint, Wellness AIDS Services, is asking Flint leaders to back a proposal which would allow them to create a needle exchange. The exchange, they argue, will reduce the incidents of intravenous drug user infections with HIV, as well as Hepatitis B and C. But local leaders are leery of the [...]
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