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.
Freshman Representative Gary Peters is doing something unusual for a first-term congressman — criticizing the leadership of his own party. Peters and three other Democratic legislators — John Adler of New Jersey, Jim Himes of Connecticut and Peter Welch of Vermont — this week formed the Spending Cuts and Deficit Reduction Working Group and proposed a series of bills to cut spending. Peters’ bill makes cuts in the federal energy budget.
In an interview with Politico, Peters took shots at the House leadership:
“We have been growing increasingly frustrated with the lack of action and talking about specifics and putting those on the table,” Peters said in an interview with POLITICO. “We’ve been frustrated with both Democratic leadership and Republicans,” the Michigan congressman added…
Peters’s press secretary, Cullen Schwarz, was more blunt, sounding off after failing to hear back from Hoyer’s office.
“Our leadership hasn’t put any serious budget cuts on the table so we had to take matters into our own hands. Long story short: No, we have no support from our leadership, and to this point neither they nor the Republicans have put their money where their mouth is on spending cuts,” he said in an e-mail. “We’re upset.”
To be fair, the proposals put out by this group hardly comprise “serious budget cuts.” They claim to save $70 billion over 10 years, or $7 billion a year. That’s about .0056 percent of this year’s federal deficit and about .002 percent of the total budget.
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