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.
After Congress released the second $350 billion in TARP funding, President Obama made sure new rules wouldn’t be so strict that they would scare away the employees of recipient companies.
Members of Congress and President Barack Obama are clearly as angry as their constituents over the millions of dollars in bonuses awarded to American International Group’s financial products employees, likely paid by injections of taxpayers’ monies since the U.S. government owns a substantive portion of the insurance corporation.
As Congress prepares to consider a Bush proposal to establish a $700 billion fund for purchasing toxic mortgage assets, there is one part of that proposal that is profoundly disturbing even if one accepts the idea that the government should be spending hundreds of billions of dollars we don’t have to rescue struggling companies: the [...]
[COMMENTARY] Congratulations! You and your fellow American citizens just bought a failed investment bank at a fire-sale price overnight! Well, almost. The Federal Reserve agreed to guarantee losses by Bear Stearns if the healthiest U.S. investment bank, J.P. Morgan, would buy Bear Stearns and in turn guarantee its financial contracts. The amount that the Federal [...]
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