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The Michigan Messenger going forward

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.

Senate passes historic, if diluted, health reform bill

By Mike Lillis | 12.24.09 | 9:57 am

Senate Democrats on Thursday approved the best health care reform bill they could manage: a sweeping $871 billion proposal designed to extend coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and slow the growth of runaway costs. It was at once a monumental achievement, which if signed into law would represent the most expansive overhaul of the nation’s dysfunctional health care system in generations, and a disappointment to many liberals who’d hoped the reforms would go further to rein in the same medical-services industries most responsible for the skyrocketing expenses.

The tally was 60 to 39, with every member of the Democratic caucus (including two Independents) voting in favor of the measure and every Republican present voting against it.

“This is for my friend Ted Kennedy,” 92-year-old Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) said just before his vote, a reference to the late Massachusetts Democrat and health reform champion who passed away over the summer.

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  • lifecoaches

    Fight the deceptive and negative rhetoric America. The health care reform bill is what America needs, the anti-everything groups are not being accurate in their bleating. If we leave things as they are with our health care, we will end up paying so much more because of the health care companies executives can cherry pick who they insure and raise the premiums to all others, so no one can afford their premiums. Employers are dropping their policies on employees’ one right after another already. If your employer can't afford premiums now, imagine what it will be like in a year. The conservatives and libertarians are bleating their same old anti-government speeches and we watch our protections from immoral big business rape us and gamble with our lives. This administration is desperate, because it sees what will happen to the American public if our fate is left up to a group of health care company executives that could care less about our lives than their huge profits. If the health care insurance companies and PHARMA can spend one million dollars a day to stop this legislation, can you imagine the huge profits that they are trying to protect?

  • lifecoaches

    Fight the deceptive and negative rhetoric America. The health care reform bill is what America needs, the anti-everything groups are not being accurate in their bleating. If we leave things as they are with our health care, we will end up paying so much more because of the health care companies executives can cherry pick who they insure and raise the premiums to all others, so no one can afford their premiums. Employers are dropping their policies on employees’ one right after another already. If your employer can't afford premiums now, imagine what it will be like in a year. The conservatives and libertarians are bleating their same old anti-government speeches and we watch our protections from immoral big business rape us and gamble with our lives. This administration is desperate, because it sees what will happen to the American public if our fate is left up to a group of health care company executives that could care less about our lives than their huge profits. If the health care insurance companies and PHARMA can spend one million dollars a day to stop this legislation, can you imagine the huge profits that they are trying to protect?

  • lifecoaches

    The conservatives and republicans are expecting the American voter to forgive and forget. That same group has not come up with an original thought or policy for so long we might start to forget when the last one came about. To forgive them for the mess that they got us into would be possible if they tried hard to get us out of it. But nooooo. They are spewing the same moronic policies that almost ruined this nation. Why is that, we wondered? Now they are trying to stop anyone from working on our multitude of very difficult and complicated issues. While still crying foul, nobody is inviting us in, and using theatrics too, they stomp their feet to get someone to notice them. Their foot soldiers are still attempting to use lies and deception to get Americans to forget their blunder. WAIT A MINUTE! Big business is on their way to save the day. Omg! Big (immoral) business is again spending millions to save their ‘bought and paid for’ politicians from doom. Ads on TV, ads in magazines, ads in news papers, ads are everywhere. What a group coming to the aid of those idiot republican politicians, PHARMA, petroleum industry, banking moguls, AND the health insurance executives!! ! Of course we all know the support that cluster faux, wall street journal, and the rest of those far right media’s give their bought and paid for politicians.

  • lifecoaches

    Fight the deceptive and negative rhetoric America. The health care reform bill is what America needs, the anti-everything groups are not being accurate in their bleating. If we leave things as they are with our health care, we will end up paying so much more because of the health care companies executives can cherry pick who they insure and raise the premiums to all others, so no one can afford their premiums. Employers are dropping their policies on employees’ one right after another already. If your employer can't afford premiums now, imagine what it will be like in a year. The conservatives and libertarians are bleating their same old anti-government speeches and we watch our protections from immoral big business rape us and gamble with our lives. This administration is desperate, because it sees what will happen to the American public if our fate is left up to a group of health care company executives that could care less about our lives than their huge profits. If the health care insurance companies and PHARMA can spend one million dollars a day to stop this legislation, can you imagine the huge profits that they are trying to protect?

  • lifecoaches

    Fight the deceptive and negative rhetoric America. The health care reform bill is what America needs, the anti-everything groups are not being accurate in their bleating. If we leave things as they are with our health care, we will end up paying so much more because of the health care companies executives can cherry pick who they insure and raise the premiums to all others, so no one can afford their premiums. Employers are dropping their policies on employees’ one right after another already. If your employer can't afford premiums now, imagine what it will be like in a year. The conservatives and libertarians are bleating their same old anti-government speeches and we watch our protections from immoral big business rape us and gamble with our lives. This administration is desperate, because it sees what will happen to the American public if our fate is left up to a group of health care company executives that could care less about our lives than their huge profits. If the health care insurance companies and PHARMA can spend one million dollars a day to stop this legislation, can you imagine the huge profits that they are trying to protect?

  • lifecoaches

    The conservatives and republicans are expecting the American voter to forgive and forget. That same group has not come up with an original thought or policy for so long we might start to forget when the last one came about. To forgive them for the mess that they got us into would be possible if they tried hard to get us out of it. But nooooo. They are spewing the same moronic policies that almost ruined this nation. Why is that, we wondered? Now they are trying to stop anyone from working on our multitude of very difficult and complicated issues. While still crying foul, nobody is inviting us in, and using theatrics too, they stomp their feet to get someone to notice them. Their foot soldiers are still attempting to use lies and deception to get Americans to forget their blunder. WAIT A MINUTE! Big business is on their way to save the day. Omg! Big (immoral) business is again spending millions to save their ‘bought and paid for’ politicians from doom. Ads on TV, ads in magazines, ads in news papers, ads are everywhere. What a group coming to the aid of those idiot republican politicians, PHARMA, petroleum industry, banking moguls, AND the health insurance executives!! ! Of course we all know the support that cluster faux, wall street journal, and the rest of those far right media’s give their bought and paid for politicians.

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