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 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.
Iraq War veteran and progressive activist John Waltz, a Democrat, has moved back home to Michigan to run against Republican Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) for the Congressional seat in District 6.
Environmental groups are concerned that the appointment of Rep. Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, to the supercommittee that will decide how to reduce the federal debt will give him another platform to attack the EPA.
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.
John Walke, Clean Air Director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, writes an essay responding to legislators and industry representatives who have been attacking the EPA and seeking to weaken its authority to protect the nation’s air and water resources.
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:
To mark the first anniversary of when Enbridge formally notified the federal government that an estimated one million gallons of crude oil had been released into the Kalamazoo River watershed, environmentalists are calling on two Republican congressman to stop political attacks aimed at the Environmental Protection Agency.
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.
Rep. Fred Upton’s House Energy and Commerce Committee has already approved legislation that would force the Obama administration to make a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline by Nov. 1 and now the full House may vote on the bill.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan, on Wednesday passed a bill that would forbid the EPA from regulating the handling of coal ash, a toxic by-product of coal power generation. The vote was 35-12.
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