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.
As noted in a MarketWatch report today, the memory of Katrina hangs over the GOP and its prospective nominee:
“The Republican Party may hold off on its national convention next week if Tropical Storm Gustav turns into a hurricane and strikes the Gulf Coast, a spokesman for presumptive presidential nominee John McCain said Thursday.
“Sen. McCain has always been sensitive to national crisis…”
Um, I read somewhere recently that Senator McCain was finally taking some time to get familiar with computers and the internets. Or, perhaps it’s just no big deal to him to tell the American public lies while he’s on the campaign trail as there’s no one following him around with a laptop that knows how to use the Google.
On August 28, 2005, as Katrina gathered strength in the Gulf Coast, Senator McCain was on ‘Face the Nation.’ He made no mention of Katrina whatsoever. As Katrina made landfall in Louisiana the following day, the Senator was on the tarmac at Luke Air Force Base in his home state of Arizona being photographed as he was presented with a birthday cake by George W. Bush on McCain’s 69th birthday. The former rivals posed, holding the cake up for cameras, and within seconds, went their separate ways. The cake, melting in the 110-degree Arizona heat, was left behind, uneaten.
Three days later, the levees had already breached and New Orleans was drowning, John McCain’s office released a public statement- three sentences – urging the nation to support the victims of Katrina.
John McCain didn’t arrive to tour the devastation in New Orleans until March of 2006. He voted against establishing a Congressional commission to examine the Federal, State, and local responses to Katrina in med-September 2005. He repeated that vote in 2006. He voted against allowing up to 52 weeks of unemployment benefits to people affected by the hurricane, and in 2006 voted against appropriating $109 billion in supplemental emergency funding, including $28 billion for hurricane relief.
It makes sense that the Republicans would consider rescheduling their conference for another date. What compassionate conservative wants to get caught partying on camera while one of our nation’s cities drowns… a second time?
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