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.
The Washington Post reported just before midnight Monday that the Obama administration has agreed to acquire a prison in Illinois to house prisoners from Guantanamo Bay Cuba.
The critical step toward fulfilling President Obama’s pledge to shut the Guantanamo detention center will be announced Tuesday, said the official, who reported that Obama has ordered the acquisition of the eight-year-old Thomson Correctional Center, about 150 miles northwest of Chicago.
The announcement will come as a blow to residents of Standish, MI, who had been lobbying to move the prison there to a maximum security facility Gov. Jennifer Granholm ordered closed earlier this year as part of budget cutting efforts.
The Gitmo facility houses prisoners the U.S. has caught in the war on terror.
Officials say the move will likely create as many as 3,000 jobs for Illinois as the prison will require additional construction to make it “beyond super max.”
The move of prisoners from the camp is not without controversy. Illinois Republicans have protested the move, with Rep. Mark Kirk of Illinois has called the move “an unnecessary risk.”
Had the Obama administration selected Michigan to move the detainees, there would also have been controversy. As recently as Monday morning, Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Holland) told a gathering in Holland that the decision to move Gitmo detainees to U.S. soil as well as to hold trials for alleged Al Queda leaders in New York “is a bad decision. They’re just creating two huge targets for the terrorists.” Hoekstra is running for the GOP nomination for governor.
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