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.
Constituents are chiming in on U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s proposal to spend $700 billion to bail out Wall Street.
Bloomberg.com reported yesterday that Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan has received at least 300 calls and 100 emails from people asking why the government will help businessmen who have run their companies into the ground.
“Accountability is a big deal,” Stupak told Bloomberg, “That’s where they’re at.”
Jameson Cunningham, spokesman for Republican Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, said he believes McCotter is the first Republican lawmaker to declare his opposition to the bailout.
“He basically believes that there should be private recapitalization as opposed to a public bailout. Government shouldn’t always be the first immediate saving power,” Cunningham said. “I’m overhearing constituent phone calls and e-mails, and they are generally across-the-board against bailout.”
A Michigan Messenger investigation published earlier this week revealed that since March 2007 McCotter, who sits on the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, and the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, has missed 13 meetings related to the current financial crisis.
Yesterday the FOX Business channel interviewed McCotter on his views about the Paulson plan. You can watch that here.
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