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.
Tom Barrow, the challenger to Mayor Dave Bing of Detroit in the last election, gets his chance in court this morning as Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Isadore Torres hears his quo warranto lawsuit to remove Bing from office due to alleged election irregularities. A quo warranto lawsuit comes from the British common law and [...]
DETROIT — The Motor City wants change. At least that was the message sent from the polls on Tuesday night’s general municipal election.
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.
DETROIT — AFSCME Council 25 negotiators and city labor relations representatives return to the bargaining table today to continue hammering out an agreement that bridges the gap between labor demands and the city’s proposal to make deep cuts to stem the budget crisis.
In a press release on Tuesday, Detroit mayoral candidate Tom Barrow called on Mayor Dave Bing’s chief aide Charles Beckham to resign. His statement comes a day after activist Agnes Hitchcock asked Attorney General Mike Cox to remove Beckham from his position because it is against state law for someone convicted of fraud to hold [...]
DETROIT — Mayoral contender Tom Barrow wants the state to investigate his opponent, incumbent Dave Bing, in a case that may involve questionable campaign finance methods. After The Michigan Citizen published a report showing that the Bing campaign received $38,475 in loans from a company that does not exist in state records, Barrow wrote a [...]
After the August primary results put mayor Dave Bing more than 70 percent ahead of his opponent Tom Barrow it seemed safe to assume that Bing was a shoe in for the city’s top spot in the Nov. 3 general election. But according to a report on the Michigan Citizen website, Barrow is no longer [...]
Tom Barrow, the longtime Detroit political activist challenging Dave Bing in the November mayoral election, came out swinging after Bing put off a plan to lay off 113 bus drivers and cut back Saturday and Sunday routes by using federal stimulus money to pay their salaries for the next few weeks.
DETROIT — Newly elected Mayor Dave Bing won’t have as much competition in his race to secure a full mayoral term as had been anticipated. With top contenders such as City Council President Kenneth Cockrel Jr., former Deputy Mayor Freman Hendrix, and Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans out of the race, Bing’s most well-known opponent [...]
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