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.
President Obama’s push for additional economic stimulus has hit a wall not only in Congress, but also at the G-20 summit among European leaders.
On Thursday, President Obama formally nominated several new judges to serve for lifetime appointments on the federal bench — including Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Mark A. Goldsmith. Goldsmith has served as a state judge since 2004, and before that he was a private attorney with the Detroit law firm Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn. [...]
If you consider yourself a train aficionado, I imagine you’re ears perked up when President Obama dropped that $8 billion pledge for new investments in high-speed rail corridors in his State of the Union address last night. Later today in Tampa, Florida, Obama is expected to elaborate on the plan to upgrade rail networks in [...]
While the White House isn’t commenting on it, the feel good story of the day coming out of Motown today is that a small, local theater company unexpectedly received a big personal check last week from President Obama and First Lady Michele Obama. The amount? A cool $10,000 for the Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit [...]
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, [...]
A poll released yesterday spells bad news for President Barack Obama and Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm. According to an Associated Press story published earlier today, an EPIC-MRA phone survey conducted last week indicates that the new Democratic president is mildly unpopular in Michigan — a state he won by a whopping 16 point spread last [...]
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing gets an opportunity to lobby President Obama in the White House today at an afternoon holiday reception. There’s no press release about the 3:00 p.m. reception posted on the mayor’s office Web site, and an Associated Press brief only notes that a spokesman for the mayor says Bing looks forward to [...]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, urged the Obama administration not to surge U.S. troops before accelerating their Afghan counterparts. That used to be the perspective of Defense Secretary Robert Gates as well. But, of course, President Obama did the opposite, with Gates’ support. In his [...]
In response to a question posed by The Advocate magazine, the White House has thrown its support behind two of the three major gay-rights ballot initiatives voters will face on November 3 – Maine’s up-or-down vote on upholding same-sex marriage, and Washington state’s up-or-down vote on domestic partnerships. But there was no mention of Kalamazoo’s anti-discrimination [...]
The Detroit News reports that many Michigan schools did not show President Obama’s speech to the nation’s elementary and secondary students on Tuesday. Some schools opted to tape it for later viewing, some let teachers decide whether to show it to their classes and some decided not to show it at all.
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