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.
State Rep. Mark Meadows (D-East Lansing) announced Monday that the controversial clone of Arizona’s immigration law known as SB 1070 will not have a hearing in the House Judiciary Committee, which he chairs.
The law has sparked protests in the state.
In his monthly update to constituents, Meadows wrote, “I have the Meltzer/Arizona version of the immigration bills pending in my committee and will not be having any hearings on them…”
In addition to the announcement, Meadows released a floor speech he had prepared last year on the issue of immigration. He never gave that speech, because the planned attempts to add anti-illegal immigration language to bills pending in the House never materialized.
In that speech, Meadows planned to say:
Now I am not arguing to excuse the laws and legitimize those who have violated them, but I cannot support legislation that provides an opportunity to stop every Hispanic looking citizen of the State, every middle eastern looking citizen and every other different looking person in the hope that we find one that is here illegally.
My family emigrated from Wales and Ireland. A few years ago there was a movie about a modern Irish family that crossed from Canada illegally and set up shop in New York. The only thing that set them apart was their dialect. If this bill passes, every one who talks funny can be stopped on the street and questioned by a Police Officer. This is a slippery slope. A continuation of something that started with the Patriot Act a few years ago when the federal government in a classic unfunded mandate ordered our local police departments to keep track of what people checked out of our local libraries.
State Rep. Kim Meltzer, who introduced the controversial Arizona clone law could not be reached for comment.
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