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.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative under the Bush administration struck a secret deal with the European Union that could open up a door for foreign ownership of liquefied natural gas terminals and other dangerous chemical and energy facilities. The agreement may also challenge federal, state and local regulations of those facilities as barriers to international trade. Details of the negotiations came to light after a Michigan Messenger inquiry and federal lawsuit seeking disclosure of the agreement.
The Michigan House on Wednesday passed three bills to help clean up political corruption and hold legislators responsible for attendance. The three bills would do the following:
After Congress released the second $350 billion in TARP funding, President Obama made sure new rules wouldn’t be so strict that they would scare away the employees of recipient companies.
A group of Democrats in the Michigan House of Representatives submitted a package of government reform proposals on Monday that they say will reduce lobbyist influence, cut costs and increase transparency for elected officials. They also called on the Republican-controlled Senate to pass the 10% pay cut for elected officials in the state that passed [...]
As Congress prepares to consider a Bush proposal to establish a $700 billion fund for purchasing toxic mortgage assets, there is one part of that proposal that is profoundly disturbing even if one accepts the idea that the government should be spending hundreds of billions of dollars we don’t have to rescue struggling companies: the [...]
[COMMENTARY] Michigan State University is in the middle of a difficult community debate about the difference between free speech and hate speech. And more important, should hate speech be protected speech. The university has had to confront this debate head-on because the MSU chapter of the conservative Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) has sponsored talks [...]
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