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.
It’s official. The Detroit Public Schools Board of Education, after two months of threats, filed a lawsuit against districts Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb for making a decision on academics without prior consultation with the Board. The Board filed the lawsuit against Bobb in the Wayne County Circuit Court Monday morning, the Detroit News reports.
Just as criminologists are baffled about an unexpected decline in violent crime in many of the nation’s biggest cities, Detroit’s new police chief is predicting that the “Wild West” nature of violent crime in the Michigan’s largest city will worsen and the rates of murders and other violent crime will increase. Warren Evans, the former [...]
According to her resignation notice, Monica Conyers’ last day as a Detroit City Council member was on Monday. But apparently, she didn’t even bother to show up at her offices at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center on her last day. However, Conyers, who pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to commit bribery late [...]
DETROIT — The battle to preserve the remains of Tiger Stadium was lost Monday morning when a judge denied a preservationist group’s request to halt demolition on historic ballpark. Eyewitnesses at the stadium have confirmed that demolition has restarted late Monday morning.
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.
DETROIT — Michigan Senate lawmakers voted 17-20 along party lines on Wednesday to pass a bill that revives a deal that would transfer control of the Cobo Convention Center from the city to a regional authority in exchange for $20 million and the $288 million needed to expand and renovate Cobo to continue to accommodate [...]
DETROIT — Sept. 11, 2007, was a good day Gary Brown, the ex-police chief who blew the whistle on ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s affair. That day, Brown and his colleague, police officer Harold Nelthorpe, became millionaires. Brown and Nelthorpe won $6.5 million in a settlement with the city after they were fired by Kilpatrick for getting [...]
Time is running out for the nearly 500 people who pulled petitions to run for Detroit City Council. The deadline to file those petitions is today at 4 p.m. As of last week Friday, only 94 actually had filed, according to the Detroit Free Press. All of the current council members who are running for [...]
Ever since he served as deputy mayor under then-Mayor Dennis Archer, Freman Hendrix has been determined to work inside Detroit city hall again. He ran for mayor twice unsuccessfully — first against Kwame Kilpatrick in 2005 and again this February in Detroit’s special election primary when he came in as a runner up to David [...]
Mayor-elect David Bing will be sworn in as Detroit’s new mayor later today. The 3 p.m. ceremony will be held at the city’s Department of Elections office. City Clerk Janice Winfrey conduct the oath of office. Bing will serve as Detroit’s third mayor in eight months after beating interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr., who is [...]
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