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.
Last month a federal judge blasted the city of Detroit for destroying a computer that belonged to former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick because it likely contained evidence that could be important in ongoing corruption investigations. Now Kilpatrick has said in court filings that he gave that computer to Ken Cockrel Jr., who succeeded him in office [...]
Synagro, the Houston sludge hauling company, seems to be angling for a spot in the chutzpah hall of fame. They got caught bribing city council member Monica Conyers, who will soon be going to jail for it along with Synagro VP James Rosendall and Rayford Jackson, the middleman in the deal, and the company still [...]
As 18 candidates compete for 9 seats on the Detroit City Council, a couple of incumbents on the board are falling behind in the polls and face weak prospects for winning reelection. The Detroit News reports on the results of a recent poll taken by Mark Grebner:
There were no big surprises in Tuesday night’s primary election results posted on the local Fox 2 News website. As predicted there was a low turnout — about 15 percent according to the City Clerk’s office. The usual turnout in Detroit for the August primary is about 20 percent. But voter fatigue from the two [...]
ClickonDetroit reports that several of Monica Conyers’ colleagues on the Detroit City Council are calling on her to resign after pleading guilty to taking bribes from Synagro to cast the deciding vote giving the company a huge contract with the city to dispose of sewage sludge.
Businessman Dave Bing, a former Pistons standout, beat interim Mayor Ken Cockrel Jr. by a 52 percent to 48 percent margin during Tuesday’s special mayoral election.
Bing will serve out the remainder of ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s term. The winner of the August primary and November general election will take office in January to start a new full term.
DETROIT — As election returns come in, the crowd in the ballroom at the Doubletree hotel has been growing with excitement over businessman Dave Bing’s apparent victory in today’s special mayoral election over interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. Meanwhile, Bing has been upstairs, in a suite on the 10th floor watching the Tigers game and [...]
The Detroit Free Press is reporting that with 81 percent of precincts reporting, challenger Dave Bing has a 54-48 lead over interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. in today’s special election in Detroit. Those results do not include absentee ballots, however, which favored Cockrel significantly during the primary election a few months ago.
To the surprise of many, the Detroit Free Press has endorsed Dave Bing in the Detroit mayoral race, calling him “a natural leader, experienced businessman and — important in a city where government needs an overhaul — not a product of its political system.”
A bridge to opportunity or a bridge to nowhere? Regarding a possible second bridge crossing across the Detroit River between Windsor and Detroit, it depends on which Detroit mayoral candidate you ask.
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