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 Lansing city attorney’s Freedom of Information Act policy working group left a 45-minute closed-door meeting on Friday promising a renewed spirit of openness going forward.
LANSING — City Attorney Brigham Smith wants a working group being put together to develop new Freedom of Information Act policies for the city in the wake of a series of incidents earlier this year where he was criticized for being careless with private information. But the details of the capital city’s information disclosure guidelines will be hammered out in private.
LANSING — In the study of ethical strictures that govern actions by public officials, there is a principle called “councilmanic interference,” a term that describes the extra weight that’s given to statements, inquiries and comments from elected and appointed officials by city employees. And in the capital city, officials are sorting out whether a request for a May 22 undercover sex-sting by the Lansing Police Department by an appointed member of the city’s Board of Police Commissioners stepped over the line and into the territory of councilmanic interference.
LANSING — In a tense two-hour meeting earlier on Wednesday, members of the Lansing City Council’s Public Safety Committee grilled Lansing Police Chief Mark Alley and Lansing City Attorney Brigham Smith about a host of issues raised by a controversial May 22 sex-sting operation. Grumbling over the matter has grown in volume since Tuesday when [...]
LANSING — Documents released by city officials Tuesday evening show that Lt. Larry Klaus, who oversees the police department’s special operations unit, coordinated a controversial May 22 sex sting in Fenner Nature Center for responding a Board of Police Commissioners member’s requests that have been criticized as inappropriate and out of step with proper police protocol.
Lansing Police Chief: “We need to send a strong message” Lawmakers and law enforcement both say it is time to get tough on hate crimes. Legislation spearheaded by Rep. Paul Condino (D-Southfield) would expand Michigan’s hate-crime law to include additional classes of people. Continued -
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