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 Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, has released its final report (PDF) tracing the development of the Bush administration’s policies and practices of abusing and torturing detainees after 2001. The report is based on over 200,000 classified and unclassified documents, memos and communications from within the Bush administration and [...]
Though the auto bailout plan that passed the House of Representatives included the appointment of a “car czar” to oversee the restructuring of the auto industry and ensure that the funds were being used legitimately, the bailout plan that the Bush administration put together does not create such a position:
While almost everyone is expecting the Bush administration to put together some sort of short-term rescue package to keep the Big Three automakers from going under, Automotive News reports that the administration is still working on the issue and no announcement is currently scheduled:
The Bush administration has said that they do not anticipate any announcement of a bailout plan using the $700 Troubled Assets Relief Plan (TARP) fund on Monday despite a weekend spent negotiating such a plan with the automakers:
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