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.
Michigan’s junior U.S. senator, Debbie Stabenow, had a minor back and forth Friday morning with a colleague from Arizona, Republican John Kyl, during a Senate Finance Committee hearing about proposed health care reform legislation.
The topic of discussion was whether to include maternity care in all insurance policies. Kyl wanted to strike a provision which would provide the coverage, Stabenow, a Democrat from Lansing, wanted to keep it, reports Talking Points Memo.
And thus the ground work was laid for the following exchange:
“I don’t need maternity care,” Kyl said. “So requiring that on my insurance policy is something that I don’t need and will make the policy more expensive.”
Stabenow interrupted: “I think your mom probably did.”
The Kyl amendment went down on a 9-to-14 vote.
Here’s the video of the exchange.
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