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.
Journalist Diane Bukowski, who was convicted in May of two felonies related to police obstruction, got one step closer to getting a her conviction overturned this morning when a judge granted her a new hearing of her case. Wayne County Circuit Judge Michael Hathaway at first said he wasn’t sure if he could decide on [...]
DETROIT — Mayoral contender Tom Barrow wants the state to investigate his opponent, incumbent Dave Bing, in a case that may involve questionable campaign finance methods. After The Michigan Citizen published a report showing that the Bing campaign received $38,475 in loans from a company that does not exist in state records, Barrow wrote a [...]
DETROIT — Diane Bukowski, a reporter for the African-American owned Michigan Citizen newspaper, faces sentencing today after being convicted of felony police obstruction last month in a situation where she was arrested at the scene of a high-speed police chase crash in northeast Detroit last November. Bukowski and others have labeled the prosecution as retribution [...]
DETROIT — Following the conviction of a local journalist for felony police obstruction, Congressman John Conyers, the Detroit Democrat who chairs the powerful House Judiciary Committee, said that his office would be taking a very careful look at the case, which has been cited as an example of retaliatory prosecution of a reporter known for her work documenting police brutality and other justice issues in Michigan’s largest city.
Diane Bukowski, the Michigan Citizen freelance reporter who has covered police brutality issues in Detroit for ten years, is scheduled for trial on April 27 on two felony police obstruction charges. Bukowski was arrested by state police as she documented the aftermath of an Election Day police chase that resulted in the deaths of motorcyclist [...]
The Michigan Citizen’s Diane Bukowski reports that interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. has accepted big campaign contributions from city contractors.
Diane Bukowki at the Michigan Citizen is reporting that Detroit mayoral candidate Dave Bing is a member of a business group that is urging the sale of part of the city water system. Unions and residents are upset with the quiet move to sell off city infrastructure, Bukowski reports, and Bing (who as a former [...]
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