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.
AAA Michigan reported today the statewide average price of gasoline in Michigan is now $1.96 a gallon, a low it hasn’t reached since January, 2007. This steep fall in gas prices comes as a result of economic hard times across the globe that have dampened the demand for oil, according to a report by CNN [...]
A few weeks ago during a speaking engagement in Ann Arbor, respected auto industry analyst David Cole noted that if the price of gas were to fall dramatically, all the progress recently made in the area of alternative fuel vehicles would be for naught. His experience, he made clear, had shown him that not even [...]
Saving lives is not exactly what I think of when I’m emptying my wallet to fill my gas tank. But after reading a new report released by the University of Michigan that linked high gas prices to a drastic decrease in people who got killed by motor vehicles, I realized it should be. A lot [...]
A plan by Michigan House Republicans to provide relief at the gas pump is coming under fire from the other side of the aisle. GOP lawmakers want to put the gasoline tax on a summer vacation. Their plan is to suspend the state sales tax on gas from Memorial Day until Labor Day. The reps [...]
LANSING — In a session with bloggers from around the state this morning at the Michigan Policy Summit, U.S. Senator Carl Levin (D-Detroit), said he will be giving a speech about rising gas prices and the Democratic plan to address them. “We will be going after windfall profits and filling the petroleum reserve,” Levin said. [...]
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