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.
Ed Montgomery, the executive director of the White House Council on Automotive Communities and Workers, is leaving the Obama administration. He will take over as the Dean of Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute. He is scheduled to start Aug. 15.
Montgomery was appointed by President Barack Obama to lead the revitalization of the nation’s collapsing automotive industry.
His exit has left both the president and Gov. Jennifer Granholm heaping praise on him. Granholm had this to say through a spokesperson about Montgomery’s exit:
There is no overstating the support Ed Montgomery has given the state of Michigan and I want to thank President Obama for appointing him at a critical time in our history. Last year was cataclysmic for the auto industry. General Motors, Chrysler and over 50 auto suppliers declared bankruptcy. Bank lending froze. Auto sales tanked. Foreclosures hit record highs while home values plunged. And our unemployment rate soared as middle-class manufacturing jobs disappeared by the tens of thousands. At every step of the way on each and every one of these issues Ed Montgomery and his team were front and center, advocating for Michigan. Ed visited communities large and small, listening to people’s concerns for hours at a time and then went about chipping away at problems by helping identify solutions.
Obama said Montgomery would be “missed” and announced that Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and National Economic Council Director Larry Summers would run the office while he seeks out a replacement for Montgomery.
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