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.
When the news of the attempted bombing of Times Square first broke, Rep. Candice Miller (R-Michigan) put out a statement demanding that when the perpetrator is caught that he be treated as an enemy combatant rather than as a regular criminal and that he be turned over to the military to use the “harshest techniques” [...]
The League of Conservation Voters annual report ranking members of Congress on their actions on environment, public health and energy issues gives Democratic Senators Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow perfect scores and ranks the entire Democratic delegation at 93 percent or above. The Republicans scored far lower with retiring Vern Ehlers of Grand Rapids and [...]
Rep. Candice Miller, former Michigan Secretary of State and current U.S. Representative from the 10th district, has picked up a Democratic challenger for the November election: The district’s Democratic Party Chairman Henry Yanez of Sterling Heights. Yanez, a firefighter and paramedic, was a delegate to the 2004 and 2008 Democratic national conventions. In a press [...]
U.S. Rep. Candice Miller, a Republican who represents Michigan’s 10th district in the thumb, has submitted a bill to allow the president to detain terrorism suspects arrested in the United States as “enemy combatants” and have them tried in military courts rather than civilian courts. The bill is entirely superfluous. The president has always had [...]
The Macomb Daily with the Macomb County Chamber of Commerce has released the results of an e-mail survey about the impact of health care reform on their businesses. According to the Daily, the survey found 23 companies would dump their insurance plans, and opt for the government penalty. The reason? Most are paying about 15 [...]
13 of the 55 freighters that operate on the Great Lakes will likely be exempted from a proposed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency air pollution rule that would require ships operating within 200 miles of a coast to burn cleaner fuel and upgrade their engines, AP reports.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed H.R. 3548, a bill co-sponsored by Michigan Reps. Gary Peters, Sander Levin, John Dingell, Dale Kildee and Candice Miller to extend unemployment benefits in certain high unemployment states for an additional 13 weeks. The bill passed by a 331-83 vote. In a press release, Rep. Peters said:
The U.S. House has approved an appropriations bill that designates $475 million for efforts to clean up pollution and stop invasive species in the Great Lakes. The Detroit News reports that the bill includes:
As part of his energy plan, U.S. Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Brighton) proposed a plan this past summer to provide payments to consumers who traded in older cars and purchased newer, fuel efficient models. The proposal died.
To protect John McCain’s VP candidate’s reputation, the RNC creates a Palin Truth Squad composed of women passed over for the veep nod — including Rep. Candice Miller.
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