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.
Deep cuts to state-funded local revenue sharing that have forced local communities throughout the state to make major cuts to police and public safety programs have helped fuel a boost in violent crime in some cities, experts say.
LANSING — Progress Michigan and a host of elected officials, union members and others blasted Gov. Rick Snyder’s budget proposals in 10 separate press conferences across the state Monday.
More than half of Detroit’s ambulances are out of service and in need of repair and the city has been unable to fill 57 positions for paramedics and emergency medical technicians.
Clinton Township officials are accusing the Metro Detroit Freedom Coalition, a Tea Party group, of misrepresenting itself in order to schedule a Sunday Tea Party Express rally there. The Macomb Daily reports that officials from the Metro Detroit Freedom Coalition are being accused of renting two areas of the township’s Civic Center park on Sunday [...]
LANSING — Former Eaton County sheriff and Republican State Rep. Rick Jones says even after the death of a 30-year-old Matthew Bolick following a taser incident with East Grand Rapids Public Safety officers, he will continue to support his legislation to expand access to “citizen tasers.” “I still contend it is much safer to use [...]
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.
On a chilly spring morning in mid-May, 1,600 Detroit police officers got out of bed and headed out to take the department’s biannual promotional exam. But even for those who are eligible, qualified and get a high score on the test, promotion may be a longer process because of the slow recruiting of new officers. [...]
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