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.
Democratic California Rep. Barbara Lee on Friday introduced legislation aimed at addressing the on-going criminalization of persons living with HIV infection and Reps. Hansen Clarke and John Conyers of Detroit have signed on as co-sponsors of the bill.
Rep. Hansen Clarke (D-Detroit) is working on legislation that would capture federal taxes paid by people and businesses in Detroit and use the money on redevelopment projects.
In a move that may help them stay in office despite radical reformulations of their districts by the Republicans that control the state redistricting process, Detroit Democrats Hansen Clarke and John Conyers are expected to swap districts in the race for reelection in 2012.
U.S. Congressman Hansen Clarke (D-Detroit) says the draft legislation being floated by California Rep. Barbara Lee “looks like a good bill.”
Detroit Congressmen John Conyers and Hansen Clark, both Democrats, have asked Congress to counter a general climate of bias against the American Muslim community by passing a resolution affirming the civil rights of Muslims.
Congressman Hansen Clarke (D-Detroit) told WJR’s Law Show that he intends to push Congress to pass legislation to require companies that are foreclosing on a property to prove that they own the property and have the right to do so.
The Republican-led House has, temporarily at least, failed to extend three surveillance provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act that are set to expire this month.
The Detroit News reports on a new poll that shows incumbent Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick trailing her primary challenger, state Sen. Hansen Clarke, by eight points with the Democratic primary fast approaching. Kilpatrick barely won a three-way primary in 2008 and the legal troubles of her son, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, seem to have [...]
After very narrowly winning reelection in 2008, Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick faces a tough primary battle. Her campaign filed its finance report with the FEC this week and reports having $271,952 in cash on hand with three weeks to go until the primary. Her principle opponent, state Sen. Hansen Clarke, has not yet filed a [...]
State Sen. Hansen Clarke (D-Detroit) was plastering Facebook with links to a Sunday article in the Detroit Free Press. The reason? The article noted a very unscientific poll with a tiny sampling indicated Clarke was besting longtime Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks-Kilpatrick 27 percent to 19 percent. Kilpatrick is, of course, the mother of former Detroit Mayor [...]
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