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.
In a move that seems to come as a surprise to city leaders, Detroit Chief of Police Warren Evans submitted his resignation to Mayor Dave Bing this afternoon. It’s not clear why the former Wayne County sheriff chose to leave the position he’s occupied for just one year but the Detroit Free Press notes the [...]
DETROIT — The number of murders dropped in the city’s third quarter crime report for 2009, Police Chief Warren Evans said at a press conference on Monday. Over the past three months, homicides fell by 23 percent from the previous quarter, a change Evans calls “significant.” Between May and July there were 125 murders reported [...]
DETROIT—In the city that commonly referred to as the nation’s “murder capital” news of a drop in crime is something to be celebrated. According to an FBI report released today, violent crime fell 11.6 percent in 2008 Mlive reports. In June Detroit’s homicide rate was the highest in the nation. But the FBI reported a [...]
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, at a Monday morning introduction of the city’s new police chief, sung the praises of Warren Evans, the Wayne County sheriff tapped to replace James Barren, who was dismissed late last week. While Bing said he had high hopes for the new police chief, the mayor noted that high crime rates, [...]
Foreclosure sales in Wayne County will resume but on a much more “limited basis”, according to John Roach, spokesperson for Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans.
Three respected Detroit news publications have announced their endorsements for next Tuesday’s special mayoral election. Here’s who chose who and why: The Detroit Free Press endorsed Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans, indicating that his long career in fighting crime makes him an “experienced leader” ready to take on the city’s biggest problem: public safety. The [...]
The Michigan Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) announced today that it is recruiting people to participate in a campaign of civil disobedience aimed at keeping foreclosure victims from being evicted from their homes in Flint and Detroit.
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.
Home foreclosure was at the top of the agenda Monday evening at ACORN’s Detroit mayoral candidate forum.
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.
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