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 Congressional deficit reduction “supercommittee” that has been charged with finding $1.5 trillion in budget savings by Thanksgiving could save billions by eliminating tax breaks and subsidies for oil and gas companies, which advocacy groups from across the ideological spectrum support, but energy companies are battling to keep their good deals.
The 12 member Congressional supercommittee charged with cutting $1.5 billion from the federal budget will likely be influenced by lobbyists that they already know well — more than a hundred of their former staffers have gone to work for lobbying firms, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has named House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R- MI) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) as picks to serve on the House-Senate ‘supercommittee’ charged with coming up with more spending cuts under the recent debt deal.
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 National Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Monday announced it was unleashing robocall messages to voters in every Congressional district in Michigan being held by a Republican.
With a 292 to 137 vote the U.S. House has rejected a proposal to remove funding for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to keep open the Chicago-area shipping locks.
Dave Camp may represent Michigan in Congress but he apparently has little concern about helping the state avoid more budget cuts and business taxes. He and the rest of the GOP are opposed to a White House plan to delay repayment of state unemployment insurance loans:
This week the Obama Administration announced $47 million in new projects aimed at keeping invasive Asian carp from migrating into the Great Lakes. The 2011 carp action plan calls for new biological controls and increased e-DNA monitoring but does not include closing the locks in the Chicago waterway system.
With several older and more established congressmen leaving office at the end of this year — Vern Ehlers, Pete Hoekstra, Bart Stupak — Michigan is expected to lose some of its clout in Congress. But some of the remaining legislators are assuming powerful positions. The latest is Rep. Dave Camp (R-Midland), who will take over [...]
Millions of American saw their wealth decline in the last year and many, especially here in Michigan, lost jobs and homes. The lawmakers charged with fixing the economy, however, have fared far better. A new report from the Center for Responsive Politics finds that nearly half of the members of the U.S. Congress are millionaires [...]
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