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.
A Detroit non-profit has created an interactive guide to 13,000 tax delinquent city properties that will be offered for sale by Wayne County at an online auction scheduled for later this month.
The Wayne County Commission has adopted a resolution that calls for statewide and federal bans on natural gas fracking and urges Michigan’s Congressional delegation to support increased oversight of oil and gas production.
A state circuit court judge has overruled a unilateral decision by Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano last year to cut the wages of public employees by 20 percent across the board. Ficano imposed the cuts in December 2010 after failed negotiations with four American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees locals, representing nearly 2,000 [...]
In one of her first actions as director of the Michigan Dept. of Human Services, former state Supreme Court Justice Maura Corrigan has promised to speed up state payments to counties that have backlogs of dead poor people they can’t afford to bury.
City council members in nearly insolvent Hamtramck will consider a resolution directing the city manager to investigate receiving emergency and other services from another government entity.
LANSING — One prosecutor who “zealously” went after child molesters now believes Michigan’s overly broad sex offender registry has “really insulted the victims of these really heinous offenders when you lump them all in” with so-called underage Romeo and Juliet cases.
The Dearborn Police Department has asked Wayne County not to divulge the autopsy report of Luqman Ameen Abdullah, according to Wayne County Chief Assistant Corporation Counsel Marianne Talon. Explaining the delay on the part of the Wayne County Medical examiner’s office to decide that it would withhold the complete autopsy report, Talon said that the [...]
DETROIT — As activists call for an independent investigation into the killing of Luqman Ameen Abdullah, the imam at the center of the FBI’s Oct. 28 raids in Detroit, Michigan Messenger has learned that the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s office will not divulge the imam’s autopsy report.
With the Obama administration in power, an Indian tribe from the Upper Peninsula is submitting a new application for an off-reservation casino to be located in Romulus. U.S. Rep. John Dingell, who represents that city, is also seeking approval of the project, which was rejected by Congress in June 2008.
DETROIT — Back in January, before city workers were threatened with mass layoffs and residents dependent on public transportation faced the prospect of bus service elimination, the issue that sparked the most passion was whether Michigan’s largest city should retain or sell key city assets. Now, with little protest from city council members and activists, a plan to sell of a key piece of Detroit’s water system has been OK’d.
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