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.
Among the many revelations in a new book written by former President George. W. Bush is that he met with President-elect Barack Obama shortly after the 2008 election and assured him that he would use federal funds to keep GM and Chrysler alive so that his administration could craft a more permanent solution. The Detroit [...]
Former President George W. Bush, following in the footsteps of his former Vice President Dick Cheney, admitted to authorizing the torture of at least one detainee during an appearance in Grand Rapids. CNN reports:
Rick Snyder, the businessman from Ann Arbor who is seeking the GOP nomination for governor of Michigan, has some stern words of warning for Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele, and any other GOP member who might conflate GM’s bankruptcy woes with President Barack Obama’s agenda: Cut it out. In a statement released by Snyder’s [...]
WASHINGTON — During George W. Bush’s ill-fated push to privatize Social Security, conservatives condemned the use of surplus retirement taxes to help offset the deficit. But few Democrats or Republicans decry the government’s custom of padding its coffers with fees from an agency with a mission that’s more significant than ever: the Securities and Exchange Commission.
BENTON HARBOR — Former President George W. Bush, in a nearly 90-minute-long unscripted address to the local economic development club in this down-trodden southwest Michigan city, said Thursday evening he was honored to have served during “some unusual times,” making repeated references to the challenges he faced as commander in chief amid the “fog of war.”
Former President George W. Bush is expected to make his first major post-presidency speech this evening in Benton Harbor, one of Michigan’s poorest cities. Bush’s visit is sponsored by the Economic Development Club of Southwest Michigan which was founded by Louis Upton, the co-founder of the locally-headquartered Whirlpool Corp. and grandfather of longtime local Republican [...]
The U.S. Department of State announced today it was reversing an earlier decision by the Bush administration and will support the United Nations statement on “Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.”
Within moments of becoming President Barack Obama, incoming Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel dispatched a memo to all federal agencies ordering all “midnight rules” issued by the administration of outgoing Republican President George W. Bush to be frozen pending a review by the new administration.
The House Judiciary Committee, headed by Rep. John Conyers (D-Detroit), has released a report called Reining in the Imperial Presidency: Lessons and Recommendations Relating to the Presidency of George W. Bush. The document lays out the case against the Bush administration for rampant lawbreaking and constitutional violations ranging from warrantless wiretaps to presidential signing statements [...]
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