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’s House Energy and Commerce Committee has already approved legislation that would force the Obama administration to make a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline by Nov. 1 and now the full House may vote on the bill.
The Hill reports:
The House in the coming weeks is expected to consider legislation that would require the Obama administration to decide by November 1 whether to approve the expansion of a TransCanada oil pipeline to the U.S.
H.R. 1938, the North American-Made Energy Security Act, was just listed on the House Rules Committee website as an “active” bill, although no action is scheduled so far this week.
Given Republican control of the House, the bill seems likely to pass. Whether it passes the Senate, or even gets a vote, may be another story.
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