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.
General Motor’s Bob Lutz, hardly an environmentalist icon, is making news today for the common-sense argument he pitched in Detroit yesterday at the North American International Auto Show. His argument: a graduated gasoline tax increase would be the best way to help American consumers — and automakers — make the smartest, fuel-efficient choices. Otherwise, as [...]
In a story previewing the fast-approaching North American International Auto Show in today’s Detroit News, reporter Robert Snell notes that Obama administration officials say the president isn’t planning on attending the show. But NAIAS chairman Doug Fox says he thinks there’s nonetheless a “good chance” he’ll stop by. Not sure who to believe? Me neither, [...]
Offering a very different kind of social commentary than Eddy Grant’s thumping early 1980s classic “Electric Avenue,” the North American International Auto Show exhibit by the same name will surely feature the greenest of the green. The show is set to begin on Jan. 11 in downtown Detroit’s Cobo Center. While the show has yet [...]
DETROIT — After a nearly yearlong election spree spurred by ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s resignation, city residents have reached the grand election finale. Tuesday’s municipal election will be the fourth election day voters will have faced in the span of 10 months. Low turnout due to voter fatigue and voter apathy plagued the special election and the regular Aug. 4 primary, with just 14 percent of voters casting a ballot.
By deciding against further discussions about a state plan to create a regional authority to oversee a $288 million plan to renovate Cobo Hall in hopes of keeping the North American International Auto Show in its birthplace, the Detroit City Council all but assured that the plan will move forward. Crain’s Detroit Business reports:
Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed into law a bill authorizing the creation of a regional authority to run Cobo Hall and oversee a $300 million renovation of the aging facility. The bill is designed to keep the arena alive and keep the North American International Auto Show in the city of Detroit every year.
A bill OK’d by Michigan House and Senate lawmakers early Friday morning that would renovate and expand Detroit’s Cobo Convention Center is now on its way to the desk of Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who is expected to sign it, ending months of drama over control of the aging facility. The legislative deal, which would lease [...]
DETROIT — Michigan Senate lawmakers voted 17-20 along party lines on Wednesday to pass a bill that revives a deal that would transfer control of the Cobo Convention Center from the city to a regional authority in exchange for $20 million and the $288 million needed to expand and renovate Cobo to continue to accommodate [...]
Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson suggested Monday morning that if consensus cannot be reached on the future of Detroit’s Cobo Hall, the North American International Auto Show could move north of 8 Mile Road to his county. Patterson said auto show could be moved to the defunct Pontiac Centerville facility that has 1 million [...]
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