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.
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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.
LANSING — Both the Michigan House and Senate adjourned much earlier than had been anticipated Thursday night. The House adjourned at about 5:45 p.m. and the Senate shut down at about 6:15 p.m.
The House had been expected to be in session late into the night, and the Senate was expected to have been working until midnight.
While the House adjourned without considering any joint House-Senate Conference Committee reports, the Senate passed three budgets before adjourning.
The Senate sent budget bills to the House for the Department of Veterans and Military Affairs, The Judiciary and for the Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth.
The Democratic-controlled House has schedule sessions for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, but plans to take Monday off to recognize the Yom Kippur holiday. The Republican-controlled Senate has scheduled a session for Friday starting at 9 a.m. an hour earlier than usual, but does not have any other sessions scheduled until Tuesday.
Republicans have their annual policy conference on Mackinac Island this weekend.
In addition to the minimal movement on the budget, college students continue to put pressure on House members to support fully funding the Michigan Promise Scholarship. But Speaker of the House Andy Dillon, D-Redford, is trying to convince students to let the House pass the budget without funding the Promise Scholarship, promising them a supplemental appropriation refunding the scholarship.
But student leaders from across the state tell Michigan Messenger that is not even an option on the table.
“College Democrats at the University of Michigan plans to continue pushing for funding for the Michigan Promise Scholarship in the budgets. We believe that the Michigan Promise Scholarship is too important to be pushed off to a supplemental appropriations bill,” said Joe Sandman, press secretary for the University of Michigan College Democrats.
A spokesperson for Dillon would only say that the Speaker continued to work hard on passing budgets before the Oct. 1 deadline and preserving the Michigan Promise Scholarship.
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