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.
Republican Tim Walberg, like nearly all other Republican legislators or office seekers, has repeatedly claimed that President Obama’s stimulus package was a failure and has not produced any jobs. But as ThinkProgress noted on Friday, Walberg has proof this isn’t true because his own son is employed on a stimulus-funded infrastructure project:
WALBERG: My son works for a cement-cutting contractor. They’re getting some overtime now. You know why? Because of the stimulus, doing government contracts. My son makes $10-an-hour, but when he works on a government contract, he makes $28-an-hour.
Okay, let’s pick one horse and ride it. Either the stimulus ill didn’t create any jobs, or it created jobs that paid too much. It can’t be both.
Walberg is running to unseat Rep. Mark Schauer in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District. Walberg held that seat from 2006-2008 before Schauer defeated him and became the incumbent.
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