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.
WASHINGTON — It’s no mystery that some Democrats are hoping to extend emergency unemployment benefits even further into next year — both to acknowledge a jobless rate that’s topped 10 percent, and to fix a filing deadline glitch that will prevent those in high-unemployment states from getting the full 20-week extension Congress recently promised them. The office of U.S. Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said yesterday that the majority leader will likely get behind that push.
But it wasn’t clear how party leaders were planning to do it. The answer might have arrived today.
Reid this week told Senate Democrats that he plans to put together yet another jobs bill this year designed to curb those rising unemployment rates, according to The Hill. Citing Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), the paper reports that Reid offered no specifics about the legislation, except that passage will be a priority before Congress adjourns for the year.
When that bill emerges, you can bet that an extension of unemployment benefits will be somewhere in the package.
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