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. John Dingell (D-Mich.) has lost his longstanding chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce committee to challenger, and fellow Democratic heavyweight, Henry Waxman (D-Calif.).
Yesterday the House Democratic leadership voted to give the position to Waxman and this morning, as Mike Lillis reports at the Washington Independent, the full Democratic caucus followed suit. The vote was 137-122.
Dingell has been the chair of the Energy and Commerce committee, which considers legislation with a direct impact on the auto industry, for 28 years. He has been criticized during that time of doing the bidding of the Big Three automakers from his home town of Detroit.
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