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.
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 — Local unions came out on Wednesday to endorse City Councilwoman Carol Wood in her race to unseat Mayor Virgil Bernero. Former Mayor Tony Benevides, is also voicing his support of Wood. “I am one hundred percent convinced she can win,” Benevides, Lansing’s first Hispanic mayor, said.
DETROIT — Former deputy mayor and two-time Detroit mayoral contender Freman Hendrix showed up at the Detroit Department of Elections around 3 p.m. Tuesday, an hour before the deadline to file petitions for public office. Hendrix would not say what position he was filing for, though there has been some speculation that he’s taking a [...]
DETROIT — While the first mayoral debate between businessman David Bing and interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. last month, allowed the two ample room to go after each other, the second, hosted Wednesday afternoon by the Detroit Economic Club, was a more staid affair, focused on the issues.
The Michigan Citizen’s Diane Bukowski reports that interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. has accepted big campaign contributions from city contractors.
A “wall to wall” inspection of Mayoral Candidate Dave Bing’s auto supply company, Bing Metals Group, exposed 52 OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) violations in a report filed in 2006. The report stated:
Wayne County sheriff focuses largely on crime in his campaign, but he has ideas about the other problems Detroit faces — if you bring them up first.
Detroit mayoral candidates David Bing and Kenneth Cockrel Jr. were absent from a forum sponsored by the Detroit-based political action group Call ‘Em Out, whose mission is to stop the “selling-out of our community by elected officials.”
Of the 14 candidates in the running for Mayor of Detroit, only three were invited to the first mayoral debate forcing the eleven other candidates to find other avenues to inform the public on their agendas. One of the eleven that was not invited to debate was Nicholas Hood III, who has started campaigning the [...]
When Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick stepped down last month he opened the local government’s top slot to City Council president Kenneth Cockerel, Jr.; City Council president pro-tempore Monica Conyers moved up to city council president. But it won’t end there. Earlier this month Detroit City Council voted unanimously to hold a special election in May [...]
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