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.
Sen. Carl Levin addressed widely expressed fears from Republicans that moving the detainees from Guantanamo Bay to a maximum security prison in Michigan would be risky and dangerous, saying that allowing such fears to determine our actions amounts to giving in to terrorism. Politico reports:
Opponents of moving inmates at Guantanamo to prisons in the U.S. are essentially giving in to terrorists, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said Sunday.
“We should not be cowed by the terrorists so we don’t even keep them in maximum security prisons in the U.S.,” Levin told CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday. “We cannot allow the terrorists to be intimidating us from trying them and keeping them in our jails.”
Levin said he backs in principle a plan to bring some of the inmates to a prison slated to close soon in his home state.
“I support that provided we have local support and the governor when we’re talking about state facilities. Of course, I do,” he said.
The local support seems to be there, but Granholm has been hedging her bets on the issue.
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