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 — Diane Bukowski, a reporter for the African-American owned Michigan Citizen newspaper, was given one year of probation, 200 hours of community service and ordered to pay more than $4,200 in fines Monday morning after being convicted of two felony counts of police obstruction last month.
With Tuesday’s Detroit mayoral primary less than a week away, voters will choose among 15 candidates to run the city for the remaining eight months of Kwame Kilpatrick’s term. Here’s your guide to the crowded field.
Over the past two months, mayoral forums have been held around Detroit so that community members could learn where each candidate stands on issues that matter to them. Michigan Messenger was informed about eight community forums; here’s a list of candidates who showed up at each of those events.
Turnout at Tuesday night’s Detroit mayoral debate showed that public interest is ramping up, but many in the crowd found themselves ‘disappointed’ by the crop of candidates.
Detroit mayoral candidate Sharon McPhail snapped at a person in the audience while answering a question on how she would restore faith in the political system at a forum hosted by the PAC Call ‘Em Out. “I’m not talking to you. Shut the hell up,” she shouted at a woman who was criticizing her while she answered [...]
Detroit mayoral candidates David Bing and Kenneth Cockrel Jr. were absent from a forum sponsored by the Detroit-based political action group Call ‘Em Out, whose mission is to stop the “selling-out of our community by elected officials.”
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