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.
Like Sen. Carl Levin and former governor John Engler, Rep. Bart Stupak is now suggesting that the Obama administration move the detainees currently housed at Guantanamo Bay to a prison that was closed down in the Upper Peninsula. AP reports:
U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak wants to house Guantanamo Bay detainees at an abandoned prison in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, but said Friday he would not pursue the matter without broad support from other officeholders in the state.
Stupak, a Menominee Democrat, sent President Obama a letter in February that suggested transferring the detainees to Camp Manistique in Schoolcraft County. The state prison closed in 2007 because of budget cuts.
This plan would undoubtedly bring a good deal of federal money into the state, but Rep. Pete Hoekstra said during a debate at Mackinac Island this weekend called it a “really bad idea” because it would bring “240 of the most dangerous people in the world to the Upper Peninsula.”
The prison facility can hold up to 216 inmates, which is about the number that would probably be transferred.
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