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.
Embattled Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Menominee) won’t seek re-election, the Grand Rapids Press reports.
The 58-year-old former state police trooper has served in Congress for nine terms — that’s 18 years. But he has come under considerable fire since last summer from both conservatives and liberals.
Last summer he enraged liberals by forcing an amendment on the House version of health care reform which prevented federal funds from paying for abortions. Then earlier this year, conservatives got their turn to be ticked off with him.
Hailed as a hero of the anti-choice movement, that movement swiftly turned on him when he flipped his vote and supported health care reform. He did so only after President Barack Obama signed an executive order preventing federal dollars from being used to pay for abortions.
That vote caused the conservative Susan B. Anthony List — a right wing anti-choice group — to not only rescind its “Defender of Life” award, but announce plans to spend money trying to unseat him. The Michigan GOP also launched a campaign to defeat him. Following that, the Tea Party movement announced Thursday it would spend $250,000 to unseat Stupak.
While conservatives acted surprised by Stupak’s vote flip, he telegraphed the move in October at a town hall in Cheboygan in which he said:
“I offered an amendment that says no public funding for abortion that’s been the law of the land for many many decades and we lose that vote. Let’s say we lose that vote– we need 218 to win–let’s say we get 217 and we lose. Would I vote against health care? If I had a chance to vote my conscience I probably would not. I probably would still vote for the health care bill at the end of the day.”
The announcement comes as the Tea Party Express plans to rally throughout Stupak’s upper peninsula and northern Michigan district, and his challenger on the right had a spot on the Fox News Sean Hannity show Thursday.
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