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.
U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has issued a statement about Monday’s DREAM Act protests in his Tucson offices.
Three undocumented youth and a fourth legal citizen were arrested at the office and charged with trespassing by Tucson authorities. Officials planned to release the youth Tuesday, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) stepped in and detained the three undocumented youth.
The undocumented youth have been in the country illegally for years and were brought here by parents. They say that 65,000 undocumented youth will graduate from U.S. high schools this year, without an opportunity to pursue dreams of higher education. They are trapped between the country they have grown up in and the country they came from but know nothing about, activists say. That, activists argue is the reason to pass the DREAM Act which would create a legal path to citizenship for such youth.
McCain has sponsored the legislation in the past, but has decided not to this year. Activists and pundits alike attribute this decision to his battle to defend his Senate seat from a challenge on the right by radio talk show host J.D. Hayworth.
In response to the protest Monday, McCain’s office issued the following statement, Arizona TV station KGUN reports:
“Senator McCain understands the students’ frustrations, but elections have consequences and they should focus their efforts on the President and the Democrats that control the agenda in Congress.”
Activists with the group One Michigan issued action alerts Tuesday calling on supporters to lobby Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) to become a sponsor of the DREAM Act. Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) is already a sponsor.
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