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By Staff Report | 11.16.11

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 [...]

Colorado-based abstinence program provided false and misleading information to Michigan students

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.16.11

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.

Class action lawsuit filed against MERS over unpaid taxes

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.15.11

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.

Schuette fights important mercury regulations

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By Eartha Jane Melzer | 11.14.11

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.

Compromise on unemployment extension held up in U.S. Senate

By Ed Brayton | 10.09.09 | 6:36 am

Democratic leaders in the U.S. Senate thought they had forged a compromise on a bill to extend unemployment benefits after some legislators balked at the idea of only extending those benefits for those states with the highest unemployment rates. The agreement was for all states to have an additional 13 weeks of unemployment but the hardest hit states to get one additional week as well.

But when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tried to speed up the normal chamber procedures to take a quick vote on the measure, Republican Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona cried foul and demanded more time to consider the bill and add amendments to it. The bill is still likely to pass at some point, but next week will likely be the earliest. Nearly 100,000 Michigan workers will lose their unemployment benefits by the end of the year unless an extension is passed.

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  • Anonymous

    Hi GOP please start working for the people who elected you

    • Anonymous

      You right

  • Anonymous

    To crapdetector46….you must be a politician, you are rude and shut down to “here is an idea and lets find a way to make it work”….I know that never entered your mind. Take everything literally and do not figure out the basic idea is sound. But since your common sensedetector is NOT working….please act as every other brain dead individual and do not look at the idea…do the math, that will work better. Did you need a calculator????

  • Anonymous

    JUST REMEMBER REPUBLICANS ARE NOT THE SHARPEST PEANUTS IN THE PILE OF SHIT. JUST REMEMBER BUSH DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH YARDADGE BETWEEN HIS GOAL POST. THE THING IS REPUBLICANS DO NOT WANT ANY BODY THAT IS MIDDLE CLASS TO HAVE ANYTHING. SO IF YOU WERE NOT BORN WITH A SILVE SPOON UP YOUR ASS. THAT WAY WE CAN GET FUCKED! AND LEFT OUT IN THE COLD TO EAT SHIT AND DIE FOR THOSE GREEDY BASTERDS.

  • Anonymous

    ‘My last check should be here tomorrow… That’s a scary feeling. If they dont pass this extension ASAP I will be on the brink of loosing everything too!!! PLEASE PLEASE speed it up already…

  • Anonymous

    I tried but the senators voice mailbox is now full on Saturday the 11th.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe instead of spending all of this time bitching, you should be looking for jobs?

    Living in Michigan was probably a poor choice to begin with. Any state that puts all of their jobs in one basket is bound to experience fail at some point.

    • Anonymous

      I can’t figure out how somebody as stupid as this Billg1236 can be still employed. We are talking about emergency, priority, Stupid. Won’t help to tell people “you should have done this or done that”.

    • Anonymous

      Reply to billg1236,

      Have you ever heard of the saying reception is reality. Well with the fucked up comment you just made about living in Michigan and it being a poor choice and to stop bitching we should be looking for jobs….I got news for you, get closer to your computer screen so you read every word you dick:) YOU HAVE JUST SPOKE YOUR OWN REALITY INTO EXISTANCE. GOD DOSN’T LIKE UGLY WHEN YOU DIG SHIT YOU MUST EAT IT. AND I’M TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING. YOU’LL BE ASKING FOR HELP NEXT. MOCK MY WORDS.

  • Anonymous

    I will send Kyl a message with my middle finger.

  • Anonymous

    This debate about should they or shouldnt they is ridiculous! They know people are in need for this extension, why prolong it? Its stupid and unethical to think that these idiots dont see that if they dont put a lil pep in thier step that every unemployed citizen of this country will be marching down that famous street in washington and make shit happen cause they acting to slow with this decision. they know there are no jobs so just get on with it alredy! DAMN.

  • Anonymous

    Let pray that it passes soon

  • Anonymous

    I’m in the same position as all of you. But, what’s going to happen after they approve the 4th extension, that runs out and still no jobs? I just don’t know what i’m going to do!

  • Anonymous

    We need to organize and take to the streets.

  • Anonymous

    Who the hell is Kyl? Why did he cry foul? How about other Republican senators? Does Kyl represent GOP? Why GOP didn’t stop this idiot? Don’t they know they are out of touch?

  • Anonymous

    We all must come together and go back to what people used to do back in the days and march in the damn streets. WE NEED HELP NOOOOOOOW. All 50 STATES START MARCHING……BECAUSE IF THEY DON’T GET THIS BILL PASSED AND OUR BENIFITS TO US SOON AFTER, I HAVE A GREAT FEELING THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY BECAUSE PEOPLE WILL START TO SNAP.

  • Anonymous

    OR BETTER YET MAYBE US THAT ARE UNEMPLOYED AND ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND WHO’S BENEFITS HAVE EXAUSTED …..MAYBE THIS WOULD BE A PERFECT TIME FOR US ALL TO PULL TOGETHER AND FILE A CLASS ACTION LAW SUTE AGAINST THESE BASTARDS.

  • Anonymous

    A lawsuit would take years to go through the courts if it was even allowed to proceed as congress has sovereign immunity(the king can do no wrong) for any action or inaction they take or fail to take.

    We need to stop protesting in large numbers in every city in America for jobs and to stop the corporate ceo slave masters and bankers from continuing to rob us.

  • Anonymous

    What a bunch of sniveling whiners in this comment section. The government didn’t make you have 2 kids and “one on the way” that you apparently cannot care for on your own.

    If you can’t care for your children they should be removed from your (lack of) care.

    • Anonymous

      Dear billjenkins

      That is the dumbest statement I have ever heard. You must be on here just to piss people off which is a mental problem of its own or you can’t read and you are living with someone so you don’t have a clue what is going on in this world and your nurse wrote this for you.

      So please do the world a favor and jump off a cliff.

      Thanks, rickmick

  • Anonymous

    Some stimulus package if it takes this long. Send some free health care along with the money. all unemployed are gonna get swine flu and give it to everyone cuz they have no $ to go to doctor.

  • Anonymous

    IT LOOKS LIKE WE WILL ALL HAVE TO GO HUNGRY AND BE IN THE DARK. YOU LET THEM PUT US DOWN LIKE THAT OR YOU GONNA COME SWINGING BOTH FIST. YOU KNOW GO AHED KISS THE GOVERMENTS ASS . YOU PROBALY DON’T HAVE A SILVER SPOON UP YOUR ASS. JOBS ARN’T NOT THAT EASY TO FIND. FOR YOUR INFO I LOST MY KIDS BE CAUSE I DIDNOT HAVE A JOB. YOU KNOW WHO I’AM TALKING ABOUT

  • Anonymous

    This is my last week of unemployment without another extension I am screwed. I am a college educated certified teacher and I can’t find work in anything. I mean no teaching jobs, no fast food jobs, no motel jobs, absolutely nothing. In a year I’ve had one job interview. I have no where to go and I don’t know what to do like so many people. They need to add another 2 year extension to unemployment because do any of us really see the economy getting better any time soon?

  • Anonymous

    If you want fast action contact the senators for your state and tell them if they don’t drop everything today and pass this you will vote them out next election. If anough people do this they will get scared.

    • Anonymous

      Rick, I did that and it gets you nowhere. I think that they do not care. What I do not understand the big thing about lesser states with unemployment. When your unemployed whether your state is 3% or 15% you are still unemployed and need the help.
      Lets stop worrying about which state should get more and pass it all the same for everyone.
      1 unemployed in a state is too much.

      Bob

  • trh98

    IF THE PEOPLE IN CONGRESS AND THE SENATE CAN FIX THE WORD STUPID WE WOULD NOT BE IN THIS MESS. LEAST WE KNOW HOW TO POUR PISS OUT OF A BOOT.

  • cgreathouse

    I got my last check mid aug.I have a 3 year old little girl,she keeps asking me about christmas,at least if they pass this it could boost the economy a little,the people who make these rude remarks to the ones unemployed,will also lose thier jobs if some money is not spent during the next 2 months,to help boost the economy,something has to happen this week,some people like myself do not have family to movein with,

  • needjobs

    My husbands unemployment already ran out. We need help NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    This is crazy! I am a working mom and my husband has been laid off from his construction job for quite some time, with no offers out there, and he looks for a job every single day!! We just had our electric shut off Friday, and the same day we had a notice to shut off cable/phone/internet… I am in a daily fear that my only transportation every day to work will be repo’d….. we were within 1 day of going into foreclosure on the house…. what else can they take from us?? We have 4 kids. I have sold almost everything we have of value on eBay just to survive!! Now there is nothing left that people will buy!! My husband went ot every single local agency that helps people in need last Friday, and we got turned down by all 20 of them, saying they have no more funds to help!! But yet, even though I don’t make very much on my income, we STILL don’t qualify for food stamps!! Oh, and my husband’s unemployment ran out over a month ago!! Still no work!! I buy him the newspaper EVERY DAY! There is nothing in there unless you are a certified RN! That is all that is hiring around here, and our unemployment rate for our county is 11.9 % as of August 2009!

  • 74185296

    Wow! This is actually making me feel a little better I now know I am not alone. This has got to stop the stress and worry over bills and how i am going to feed my kids has taken its toll. God Help Us All.

  • sam882000

    Here is Senator Kyl's phone number: (202) 224-4521 I've made it a habit to call a couple times a day for the last 7-8 days. The 3-4 times I've actually spoken with someone have been a lot of fun:

    ME: “So you know Senator Kyl's block of this bill is making children go hungry?” REPLY: Well, he's aware of the situation.” ME: “So you're saying he's aware but is directly responsible for making hard working Americans that were laid off, though no fault of their own, put their kids to bed without food?” REPLY: “He's doing everything he can.” They think we're stupid. What other conclusion can we come to? He's a rich cat from Arizona and could care less about me, you, or your kids. CALL HIM. He may just press delete but every time we talk to one of his staff it plants a seed of our situation. CALL THIS M-FUCER

  • therealsugarfoot

    I teach job skills classes in Microsoft Office here in California. My students, after about 6 hours of focused, employer's viewpoint training are getting or keeping jobs at a 76% success rate.

    I have to fight to get people to come to the classes (which are donation-based) at my local church. Other churches are reluntant to work with a “rival” church. Adult schools get paid for bodies that sit in their chairs and not for those bodies actually suceeding in being employed. The longer that those bodies are unemployed, the more money they recieve. Argh!

    The local unemployment offices, however, are thrilled that dozens of people here in CA have gotten off of the unmployment rolls here in CA. They send unemployed people to the classes every week, including their own staff people.

    It is so frustrating…

  • louise70606

    Louise70606
    Please sign the unemployment extension. I have exhausted my unemployment benefits. I do not want to stay on unemployment all my life. I have an interview an have no money to get to the interview, no money to pay my rent, buy food, pay utility bills, etc. I'm a single mother from Texas where the unemployment rate is rising everyday. There are two hospitals that laid off over 50 workers last week check your facts. Between Beaumont and Port Arthur Texas the unemployment rate has risen to over 10.5 % in the last month, Check your facts. I need this extension to stay afloat. Why stall? Please you do not know how many people are hurting out here. I have two children in college. Why bail out the financial institutions, the car dealers, wall street and take your time and cry foul play about money that we have worked hard for all our lives and paid into the unemployment insurance so that when we are unemployed WE THE PEOPLE could go to you as our Senators and ask for help in time of need. I am 55 years old and need just one more chance to make this interview work and keep a job and retire. Please sign this bill ASAP.

    THANK YOU,

    Anita ARceneax

  • Conservative895

    Time to get your rumps off free entitlement programs and get to work. The Golden Arches are hiring. Get to it soldiers!!!

    • joblessinmi

      i have tried ti find a job for 2 yrs now any job doing anything i am 60 yrs old and no one will hire me not even talk to me about it so what now ? my unemployment is done ,bills are not getting paid, shutoff notices and looking to get put on the streets yea more homlessjust what this country needs more homless

      • SycoRed

        My husband is 58..he can't find a job either..there giving them to younger people who can lift more and stay longer..mmmm. I can't find a job because I have a couple of restrictions but the state says I'm not disabled..we are so screwed.

    • donm6666

      Hey Johnson! Do you have a job? Doing what? If you do how do you have the time to come on here and bust our balls about finding work. Golden arches DO NOT hire people with any kind of college degree, period!! These jobs you're talking about DO NOT and I repeat DO NOT hire people with a college degree and a brain. They say you're over qualified and when the economy turns around you will leave to a better paying job. They don't want to waste there time and money on you. These are facts, look it up!! Why are you even here talking to us? You obviously have no life. Hopefully you won't ever loose your job because being out here in this situation is something I never thought would happen to me.

  • tony1961

    everyone need to start praying

  • joblessinmi

    well if the extension happens and i am fortunate to receive it i am leaving this place called michigan and finding some sort of job in another state a warmer one at that because we can not live on unemployment forever and michigan has been murderd, it died when the car industry left
    i have seen it before in pennsylvania when the steel mills closed dead towns all over. very sad happening in america what happen to the american dream? for the hard working born american it is gone taken away by non born americans because our doors are always open to the people of other lands that want the dream our goverment gave our dream away so now here we are poor, broke, homeless, without jobs, THINK ABOUT IT!

  • joblessinmi

    i am just so sad. that our goverment can not understand and doesn,t really even care what happens to all of us . otherwise they would have granted the extension and had it on its way to us by now and had it even retro so some of us could get a bit out of debt we will see this week what comes of the extension stimulus…..i pray for us all and i sincerly hope we all will make it thru this, we are the true americans and we can do this we will make it with out the american dream at hand we will show them all..we have the heart. in god we trust!!!!

  • joblessinmi

    i am just so sad. that our goverment can not understand and doesn,t really even care what happens to all of us . otherwise they would have granted the extension and had it on its way to us by now and had it even retro so some of us could get a bit out of debt we will see this week what comes of the extension stimulus…..i pray for us all and i sincerly hope we all will make it thru this, we are the true americans and we can do this we will make it with out the american dream at hand we will show them all..we have the heart. in god we trust!!!!

  • joblessinmi

    i am just so sad. that our goverment can not understand and doesn,t really even care what happens to all of us . otherwise they would have granted the extension and had it on its way to us by now and had it even retro so some of us could get a bit out of debt we will see this week what comes of the extension stimulus…..i pray for us all and i sincerly hope we all will make it thru this, we are the true americans and we can do this we will make it with out the american dream at hand we will show them all..we have the heart. in god we trust!!!!

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