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.
DETROIT — Union leaders, city council candidates and charter revision commission candidates are balking at Mayor Dave Bing’s proposal to privatize a sizable portion of the city government in order to reduce the flow of red ink.
DETROIT — Michigan’s largest city is short on a lot of things, but candidates for public office isn’t one of them. With 167 Detroit City Council hopefuls and 49 gunning for seats on the new City Charter Revision Commission, the Aug. 4 primary ballot could pass as a short novel.
Time is running out for the nearly 500 people who pulled petitions to run for Detroit City Council. The deadline to file those petitions is today at 4 p.m. As of last week Friday, only 94 actually had filed, according to the Detroit Free Press. All of the current council members who are running for [...]
The Detroit Police Department’s (DPD) second deputy chief James Tate, 34, announced Tuesday that he will be running for a seat in city council November’s general election. According to the Detroit Free Press, Tate told members of DPD’s senior management team that he will be resigning after a five-year tenure as spokesman the department.
While many people were watching NCAA Final Four action on their televisions, a group of Detroit area residents were busying preparing for a giant fight– a pillow fight that is. But Detroit Police showed up at Campus Martius Park and ended the fight before it even began, according to a report in the Detroit Free [...]
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