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.
Michigan Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Detroit) is among a group of lawmakers demanding Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) provide a briefing on the House’s defense of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The Washington Blade reports on the letter: “As Members who believe that DOMA is unconstitutional and support the President’s decision to [...]
Voluntary loan modification programs are not saving people from losing their homes to foreclosure, U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr. of Detroit told a House panel on Wednesday, and the problem is acute in the Detroit area where 195 Wayne County homes are entering foreclosure each month.
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.
Earlier this week, Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, issued a subpoena to former Bush adviser Karl Rove to appear before that committee. Now Karl Rove has responded rather derisively:
A bill to allow bankruptcy judges to rewrite mortgages for people facing foreclosure was approved by the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday. In introducing the legislation bill sponsor Democratic Rep. John Conyers Jr. of Detroit said: Detroit has had more than 100,000 foreclosures over the last three years. And they are continuing at the rate of [...]
[COMMENTARY] Is Sam Riddle right? I don’t think so. He thinks the FBI wants to embarrass U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr. by investigating his wife. He’s convinced that’s why the feds reportedly are investigating Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, as part of a larger corruption probe into how the city entered a new $47 million [...]
Isn’t it amazing how some people are blessed with the ability to avoid near-certain political or social death, re-inventing themselves so they can let loose their bag of tricks in some new venue? I’m thinking about Barbara-Rose Collins, vaulted into headlines recently when she defended besieged Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick as the majority of her [...]
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