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 Senate candidate Jack Hoogendyk raised a few eyebrows earlier this week when he sent out an email to supporters subject lined, “Carl Levin is the biggest ‘porker of the month’.'” The email shared with folks The Citizens Against Government Waste rating on Sen. Carl Levin’s (D-Detroit) performance.
According to CAGW, Levin slipped a provision into the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 which would overrule a Jan. 2008 executive order from President George W. Bush directing departments to treat legislative earmarks as unwanted comments; CAGW said that Levin’s effort gutted the order. Until this executive order, the earmarks were treated as directives on spending.
The provision in the bill would have made law any earmarks from committee reports.
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