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.
Appearing as part of an Iowa bus tour launched by national religious conservatives, U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter told Iowans Thursday that fiscal and social issues aren’t separable.
Thaddeus McCotter praised grassroots activists in Iowa, saying his own “most fulfilling and rewarding” political position was when he was elected as a precinct delegate in his own neighborhood in the 1980s. He believes history has been changed, and will be changed again, on the shoulders of average Americans.
Several sugar companies, including Michigan Sugar, have filed suit against multiple Iowa corn-producing companies over a new marketing pitch for high-fructose corn syrup that labels the product as “corn sugar.”
Days ago Roy Moore, a former Alabama chief justice known for his refusal to remove a Ten Commandments monument from court property, stood on the steps of the Iowa Capitol and voiced his opposition to same-sex marriage rights in the Hawkeye State. Now he’s considering a much longer Iowa engagement while he pursues the 2012 [...]
Leadership in the U.S. House Financial Services Committee will hold a subcommittee hearing this week in advance of four bills aimed at terminating federal programs designed to keep Americans in their homes. The programs — the Home Affordable Modification Program, HUD’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program, the Emergency Homeowner Relief Fund (passed under the Dodd-Frank Act) and [...]
U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, a Michigan Democrat and outspoken anti-abortion activist, appeared Thursday morning on ABC’s Good Morning America to announce that he and 11 House members would not support the U.S. Senate’s version of health care reform due to their belief it offers a taxpayer subsidy of abortion services. Iowa Democratic U.S. Sen. Tom [...]
Seven months ago, Jelle Hans Reitsma, a 37-year-old Dutch immigrant who owned and operated two large California dairies, succumbed to the financial strain of low milk prices. Under pressure from banks to repay millions of dollars in loans, and believing the only foreseeable way to raise money was to either sell his dairy herds or have them slaughtered, he took a handgun, drove to a nearby walnut orchard and committed suicide.
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