Michigan
Michigan lawsuit challenges “dictator law”
June 23, 2011Twenty-eight plaintiffs from across Michigan announced Wednesday they are taking the state's controversial emergency manager law to court, charging it is violating the constitution and voting rights.
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Stop the banksters: Michigan county weighs foreclosure moratorium
June 16, 2011The UAW's Miguel Foster called the area's foreclosure epidemic an "economic and human catastrophe" that is affecting many of his union's members.
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At empty train depot, Detroiters demand jobs
June 7, 2011DETROIT - They believe that if a negligent slumlord did what he was supposed to, the worst urban blight could be used to generate good jobs.
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Michigan’s new budget increases pain and misery
June 6, 2011Republicans claim the budget, which awaits the governor's signature, is groundbreaking. Backbreaking would be more apt.
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Al Fishman, Michigan peace and justice champion, dies at 83
May 25, 2011A Detroit City Council resolution mourning Fishman's loss called him "one of our city's finest peace, civil and human rights, and labor activists, advocates and champions."
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