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 U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill that authorizes the transfer of 2,400 acres of Arizona federal forest land to the UK and Australia-based mining company, Rio Tinto.
In an editorial published May 19, the New York Times took a cue from four undocumented youth who staged a sit-in protest at the Tucson AZ offices of Sen. John McCain on Monday. They were protesting for passage of the DREAM Act, a piece of federal legislation that would create a path to citizenship for [...]
State Rep. Kim Meltzer (R-Macomb Township) says she will be introducing legislation similar to Arizona’s controversial new immigration enforcement law here in Michigan. Here’s how Meltzer announced the legislation in a press release:
Michigan blogger Marcy Wheeler points out that a lot of the ruckus we’ve heard against any effort to bailout the Big Three automakers comes from a predictable group of legislators. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Alabama), for instance, is the most prominent anti-bailout spokesperson; one could hardly believe it to be coincidence that Sen. Shelby’s state is [...]
Responding Thursday to the reports of the multiple homes owned by John and Cindy McCain, spokesman Brian Rogers came a little bit unglued:
On the heels of Republican Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain defending his alleged improper role with a lobbyist, the Bloomberg News is reporting the Arizona co-chair of his campaign has been indicted for corruption. U.S. Rep Rick Renzi, a Republican from Arizona, was indicated by a federal grand jury Friday in an alleged scheme to [...]
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