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.
Three respected Detroit news publications have announced their endorsements for next Tuesday’s special mayoral election. Here’s who chose who and why: The Detroit Free Press endorsed Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans, indicating that his long career in fighting crime makes him an “experienced leader” ready to take on the city’s biggest problem: public safety. The [...]
With Tuesday’s Detroit mayoral primary less than a week away, voters will choose among 15 candidates to run the city for the remaining eight months of Kwame Kilpatrick’s term. Here’s your guide to the crowded field.
Over the past two months, mayoral forums have been held around Detroit so that community members could learn where each candidate stands on issues that matter to them. Michigan Messenger was informed about eight community forums; here’s a list of candidates who showed up at each of those events.
After a series of endorsement interviews with seven mayoral candidates, the Detroit Free Press’ editorial staff has singled out who they consider the strongest candidates: Wayne County Sherriff Warren Evans, businessman David Bing and former Deputy Mayor Freman Hendrix. Notice any particular name missing in that lineup?
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 [...]
It’s December already and the February primary for Detroit’s special mayoral election is only two months away. But in Detroit signs that a mayoral race is underway are just starting to show. Two weeks ago a public forum in which seven mayoral candidates voiced their agendas to 200 attendees at the Charles H. Wright Museum [...]
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