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.
U.S. Rep. John Conyers got involved in the controversy over thousands of untested rape kits discovered in the Detroit crime lab after it was shut down in 2008, calling for legislation and funding to clear the backlog. The Detroit Free Press reports:
Rep. John Conyers (D-Detroit) is calling for a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Detroit area Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, who was gunned down in a raid by the FBI and local police in October. The Detroit Free Press reports:
The White House may be celebrating the fact that the Senate finally managed to overcome their arcane rules and schedule a vote on the health care reform bill — a vote that will almost certainly approve the bill — but Rep. John Conyers of Detroit is none too happy with what’s in the bill. The [...]
HAMTRAMCK — If health care reform legislation does not have a strong public option it won’t pass the U.S. House of Representatives, says Congressman John Conyers. “If we don’t have a strong public option, the bill will never get out of the House,” Conyers said during a Monday night town hall meeting on hate crimes [...]
Two big names in Detroit politics could be facing serious trouble next year if they run for re-election. And their names — Conyers and Kilpatrick — are their biggest liabilities.
It appears that last week’s guilty plea by Monica Conyers was not the end of the revelations of possible corruption, and the problems may go beyond the Detroit City Councilwoman and implicate her husband, longtime U.S. Rep. John Conyers, as well. The Detroit Free Press reports on new accusations coming from former Conyers aide Sam [...]
To the long list of political ironies, add one more: The desire of Republicans, particularly Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan, to implicate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the torture scandal by saying she knew about it early on and did nothing to stop it may have actually made it more likely that a Truth Commission [...]
Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has submitted a House resolution calling for an investigation and possible impeachment of U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent. Kent, who sits on the federal bench for the Southern District of Texas, was convicted last week of perjury and obstruction of justice relating to charges of [...]
WASHINGTON — The first week of May was as eventful for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, ACORN, as any time since the 2008 election. It began with 26 counts of extortion and voter registration fraud filed against the group and some of its members in Clark County, Nevada. It continued with the indictments of seven ACORN workers in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Democrats staged a floor fight over a Republican amendment to block any organization that had indicted members from getting taxpayer dollars. ACORN’s national spokesman was kicked off of Glenn Beck’s Fox News set.
Rep. John Conyers (D-Detroit), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has written a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder calling for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate and possibly bring charges against former Bush administration officials for ordering the use of torture against detainees.
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