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.
When speculation first began about the possibility of moving the detainees at Guantanamo Bay to a prison in the United States, there were two prisons mentioned as possibilities: the soon-to-close prison in Standish, Michigan and and military prison at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. Now the Kansas location has apparently been ruled out:
Top Michigan politicians said late Wednesday they don’t know whether Standish prison is more likely to be picked for Guantanamo Bay terror suspects now that the Obama administration apparently has taken a Kansas prison out of the running.
But Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Holland, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said he’d expect that if Obama officials were zeroing in on Standish, they would have started talking to Gov. Jennifer Granholm and members of the congressional delegation.
“If they had decided on Standish, they’d be giving me more information and negotiating with the state,” said Hoekstra, who opposes moving Gitmo prisoners to Michigan.
If the Obama administration does decide to choose Standish as the location, that could cause a thorny problem for Gov. Granholm and the Michigan Democratic Party. Public opinion is divided in this state over whether such a plan would be good for Michigan’s economy or a threat to Michigan’s security.
Leading in to the 2010 elections, if public opinion does break strongly against bringing those detainees here, state Democrats could suffer at the polls because the Republicans running for governor have declared their opposition to the idea.
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