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.
Parolees enrolled in a residential drug treatment facility in Macomb County say the building, leased by the Michigan Department of Corrections, is overrun with bedbugs. The Macomb Daily reports the infestation has been verified by former staffers as well as residents in the Self Help Addiction Rehabilitation (SHAR). Bedbugs, which are known to transmit a [...]
From the county that gave us the HIV-as-terrorism case comes another salacious story of a sexually transmitted infection. This time incoming assistant Macomb County Executive Damian Kassab has tendered his resignation before he even started the job, reports Detroit TV station WXYZ.
The reason? Kelly Dobek with whom Kassab had an affair is suing him alleging he infected her with herpes.
Daniel Allen, the HIV-positive Clinton Township man at the center of controversial bioterrorism case, has been sentenced to 11 months probation. Allen plead no contest to an assault charge last month, and Macomb County Circuit Court Judge Peter Maceroni accepted the plea and issued the probation sentence Wednesday.
The 46-year-old Clinton Township man at the center of the HIV-as-terrorism trial has reached a plea deal on two remaining felony charges, reports the Macomb Daily. Daniel Allen was originally charged with one count of bioterrorism, one count of assault with intent to maim and one count of assault with intent to do great bodily [...]
Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith is under fire for an obscenity-laced voicemail he left Saturday for a Republican candidate for the Macomb County Commission. The call from Smith was prompted after Republican James Perna and the Macomb County Republican Party sent out a mailer saying the Smith family has relied on public sector employment. Perna [...]
In a written opinion dismissing a charge of bio-terrorism against a 45-year-old HIV-positive man, Macomb County Circuit Court Judge Peter Maceroni ruled that the mere fact a person is HIV-positive is not enough to accuse him or her of unlawfully possessing a harmful biological substance.
Leon Drolet, head of the Michigan Taxpayers Alliance and a Republican candidate for state senate, has violated Michigan’s campaign finance act, the Secretary of State’s office has ruled. Drolet has been parading his fiberglass trailer mounted Mr. Perks the Pig around the Macomb county district he wants to represent. The pig has been adorned with [...]
Facing declining property tax revenues, the city of Mt. Clemens — located in Macomb County — is expected to approve a ballot measure Monday night to increase property taxes, the Macomb Daily reports. The city, like most in the state, has been socked hard by a stagnant economy, record high unemployment and crashing property values. [...]
Macomb County officials want undocumented workers to fill out their census forms. At stake, officials told the Macomb Daily, is $1,000 per person per year in federal funding. The census, conducted every 10 years, is a Constitutional requirement. The resulting numbers are then used for everything from federal funding formulas to representation in the U.S. [...]
MT. CLEMENS — Daniel Allen, the 44-year-old Clinton Township man facing unprecedented bio-terrorism charges, will have to wait a while longer before he finds out if that charge will be rejected by the courts.
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