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. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Livonia) has spent the last several days searching Iowa for support for a potential bid for the GOP nomination for president.
The Des Moines Register reports the Congressman from Michigan is eyeing the race — and the potential challengers — carefully.
“Republicans may be prepared at some point to settle, if that’s how they view it, but they’re still viewing it as, ‘Why should we have to? What else is out there?’ It doesn’t mean it’s me,” he said. “The reason I was here was to find out are they even asking that question, ‘What else is out there?’ And they clearly are.”
The key to who Republicans “settle” on is likely to hinge on the perception of who can beat President Barack Obama.
“There’s a very healthy respect for Obama as a politician and as Republicans, they want to make sure someone can defeat him,” he said in an interview in Des Moines Wednesday before he flew back to Michigan.
While McCotter has purchased a spot on the Iowa Straw Poll ballot, he still has not made a final decision about whether to run for the Presidency. He told the Register that he paid for the Poll spot with money from his Congressional campaign account.
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