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.
“This is an American proposal that honors the traditions of our country,” says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
It looks as though Rep. Bart Stupak is being increasingly marginalized for his position on health care even among his fellow pro-life Catholics. In addition to the Catholic Health Association and a group of Catholic and evangelical scholars, now a group representing 59,000 Catholic nuns has endorsed the bill.
A group of pro-life Catholic and evangelical scholars has written a letter to the members of Congress saying that Rep. Stupak is wrong in claiming that the Senate version of the health care reform bill includes public funding for abortion services. In the Senate bill, they say, “longstanding restrictions on federal funding of abortion have [...]
This is actually a few days old but I missed it when it was reported in Roll Call last week. Rep. Dale Kildee of Michigan, like Rep. Bart Stupak a pro-life Democrat, says he does not believe the Senate bill provides funding for abortion and he will likely vote for the bill when it comes [...]
As Congress debates health care reform proposals promised by President Obama during last year’s campaign, U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, a Democrat from Menominee, is bucking his party’s majority opinion and demanding that any legislation involving federal funding for health care explicitly exempt funding abortion services.
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