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.
Members of the Detroit City Council are reacting to a plan by Detroit Public Schools emergency financial manager Robert Bobb, and ordered to be implemented by the state, to close half of the city’s schools and double class sizes. And they’re not happy.
DETROIT — The Motor City wants change. At least that was the message sent from the polls on Tuesday night’s general municipal election.
DETROIT — After a nearly yearlong election spree spurred by ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s resignation, city residents have reached the grand election finale. Tuesday’s municipal election will be the fourth election day voters will have faced in the span of 10 months. Low turnout due to voter fatigue and voter apathy plagued the special election and the regular Aug. 4 primary, with just 14 percent of voters casting a ballot.
DETROIT — Back in January, before city workers were threatened with mass layoffs and residents dependent on public transportation faced the prospect of bus service elimination, the issue that sparked the most passion was whether Michigan’s largest city should retain or sell key city assets. Now, with little protest from city council members and activists, a plan to sell of a key piece of Detroit’s water system has been OK’d.
In less than a year, Detroit has had two mayors and both have proposed unpopular pay cuts when they are months away from seeking reelection. Both former Interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. and current mayor Dave Bing have warned in their first months in office that unless they impose 10-20 percent pay cuts to unionized [...]
If federal bribery charges and a felony conviction weren’t enough trouble for former city councilwoman Monica Conyers, then she doesn’t have to worry. According to city officials, Monica Conyers made off with $21,300 in city owned office equipment before her June 6 resignation. If the equipment is not returned, the Detroit police will be knocking [...]
DETROIT — City Council President and former interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. isn’t ready to gamble his council career on another mayoral run. Cockrel entered the Detroit Department of Elections Tuesday afternoon around 3:15 p.m. before the 4 p.m. deadline to file petitions for Detroit City Council.
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 [...]
Nothing involving Monica Conyers and Kenneth Cockrel Jr. seems to go smoothly. This week the two had to move back to the positions they held before ex-mayor Kwame Kilpatrick resigned leaving City Council President Kenneth Cockrel Jr. to run the city as interim mayor. Conyers stirred more trouble Monday morning when she said her staff [...]
Ever since he served as deputy mayor under then-Mayor Dennis Archer, Freman Hendrix has been determined to work inside Detroit city hall again. He ran for mayor twice unsuccessfully — first against Kwame Kilpatrick in 2005 and again this February in Detroit’s special election primary when he came in as a runner up to David [...]
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