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.
Rep. Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph), the incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee whose jurisdiction includes health care policy, says he will make repeal of last year’s historic health care reform bill a top priority.
The Associated Press reports that the House Republicans, in control of that chamber for the first time in four years, will take an early vote to repeal the health care bill in its entirety.
Even if that should pass the House it would almost certainly fail in the Senate, which is still controlled by Democrats. And even if were to pass the Senate, President Obama would veto it and there is no chance that both houses of Congress would have a 2/3 majority to override that veto.
Failing that, AP says, Upton said he would attack the reform package piece by piece in the hope of bringing it down.
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