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 passed the debt limit deal reached by President Obama and the Republican leaders of both houses of Congress on Monday night by a surprisingly easy 269-161 vote. Passage in the Senate is virtually assured. Here’s how the Michigan delegation voted:
The Republican-led House has, temporarily at least, failed to extend three surveillance provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act that are set to expire this month.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s seat in the U.S. Senate is looking like a key battle for control of Congress in the 2012 election. After defeating pols in similar situations in 2010, the GOP is targeting that seat in the next campaign:
Despite spending much of the last year and a half declaring that the stimulus package failed to create any jobs or boost the economy, the Michigan Republican congressional delegation signed a letter to the Department of Energy seeking a significant portion of those funds for the state on the grounds that they would boost the [...]
While Enbridge defended its record during congressional hearings last week, legislators and regulators pointed to hundreds of anomalies — including the risk of a major leak under the St. Clair river — as major problems to be addressed sooner rather than later.
A congressional hearing into the Enbridge oil spill in Calhoun county has begun. In opening statements, members of Congress used the opportunity to rip into Enbridge Energy Partners and federal regulators from the Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. “This corporation is not practicing a corporate culture of safety,” said Committee Chair James Oberstar, directly slapping [...]
A dent in an oil pipeline that runs under the St. Clair River is not a safety concern, Enbridge officials said Wednesday, and the company has no schedule for repairing it. “That dent is not an urgent matter of any kind,” Enbridge Vice President Stephen Wuori told reporters yesterday.
The pipeline that spilled an estimated million gallons of Canadian crude into the Kalamazoo River system last month has a dent in the section that runs under the St. Clair River where it crosses into Ontario. Half of Michigan’s population receives drinking water from systems downstream from this crossing.
Republican U.S. Rep. Candice Miller says it’s time for Congress to investigate the Enbridge oil spill and create new regulations for pipeline safety in the United States. The Detroit Free Press reports:
Macomb County officials want undocumented workers to fill out their census forms. At stake, officials told the Macomb Daily, is $1,000 per person per year in federal funding. The census, conducted every 10 years, is a Constitutional requirement. The resulting numbers are then used for everything from federal funding formulas to representation in the U.S. [...]
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