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.
Former U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Menominee) will not be staying in Michigan now that he has retired from Congress. The former lawmaker is heading east to serve as a resident fellow at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Mass.
Booth MidMichigan reports that Stupak will interact with students and lead weekly study groups on a variety of topics during the upcoming semester.
After 34 years of public service — which also includes work as a Michigan State Police trooper and state representative — Stupak said he plans to step away from government work for now, but he hasn’t ruled out returning to politics.
Leaving office, Stupak said in December that the passage of universal health care for all Americans — a controversial issue that thrust the Congressman into the national spotlight — is the highlight of his political career.
Stupak took a lot of heat in northern Michigan for his role in the passage of the federal health care reform bill. When he promised to veto the bill unless it contained an explicit ban on federal funding for abortion he and his wife received abusive phone calls. The calls escalated to death threats, he said, after he changed his vote in exchange for an executive order explicitly prohibiting abortion funding.
Last spring Stupak announced that he would not seek reelection. His seat is now held by Republican Dan Benishek of Iron River. Benishek has vowed to repeal the health care reform.
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