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.
Anti-war activists who threw a pie at Sen. Carl Levin during a Big Rapids event in 2010 have been sentenced to 30 days in federal prison.
Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin successfully fought to keep Canada’s municipal garbage out of Michigan landfills; now they’re targeting shipments of private garbage from Canada as well.
The Senate has rejected a Republican amendment that would have blocked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) — a strong backer of funding for the Afghan war — is among the politicians that were illegally targeted by a U.S. Army psy-ops unit at Camp Eggers in Kabul last year, according to a new report.
The U.S. Dept. of Transportation has the authority to block a controversial plan to ship radioactive waste over the Great Lakes.
Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) is calling for increased security at the northern border after a Government Accountability Office report found that less than one percent of the U.S. – Canada border has an acceptable level of security.
As part of a voluntary agreement Canada stopped shipping its municipal garbage to Michigan at the end of last year. The private haulers that handle that country’s commercial and industrial waste, however, still bring that garbage here because Michigan’s 21 cent per ton landfill fee is by far the lowest in the region.
U.S. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Detroit) has added his name — and considerable power — to keeping the lights on and the doors open for the Senate until the body passes legislation which eliminates the controversial ban on openly gay and lesbian service members. Levin added his voice to those of Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (I-CT) and [...]
Spencer Ackerman, formerly the foreign policy and military correspondent for our sister site the Washington Independent, reports that Blackwater/Xe, the controversial private military company owned by Michigan native Erik Prince, has received yet another contract to protect American diplomats around the world — but the contract was kept hidden from view through secret deals and [...]
Ivan Nikolov, the undocumented youth featured on Monday’s Michigan Messenger, is being released rather than deported. Activists say Nikolov will be released sometime in the next 24 hours and are planning a press conference in front of Sen. Carl Levin’s Detroit offices Tuesday morning.
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