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.
Over at our sister site Minnesota Independent, Andy Birkey reports that outgoing President George W. Bush signed into law the Worker, Retiree and Employer Recovery Act of 2008 (WRERA). The new law will mandate that a business roll over retirement benefits to same-sex partners in the event of the death of the retiree.
President George Bush announced that General Motors and Chrysler will receive $13.4 billion in loan money from the Wall Street bailout fund, in a move to keep the companies afloat through March. He also wants to see Congress allocate another $4 billion for bridge loans. By the spring, the auto makers will need to provide [...]
We’re following the presidential press conference underway now; details of the plan are not yet available, will provide those as soon as we can obtain them. While these plans may help the automotive industry limp through the first quarter of 2009, the financial crisis is spreading to peripheral businesses. We have anecdotal evidence of layoffs [...]
After a week of signaling a clear intent to put together a rescue package for the Big Three automakers to help them avoid bankruptcy, the White House said Thursday that they were also considering the option of an “orderly bankruptcy.”
After eight years, outgoing President George W. Bush told ABC’s Nightline that he does not believe the Bible is literally true, and that evolution and creation are not mutually exclusive ideas.
President-elect Barack Obama offered up a special edition of his weekly “radio” address, focusing on the economy and on a call to service in a spirit of renewal. You can find the full transcript of the speech at the Obama transition team’s website, Change.gov.
With all the talk about the religious right being anti-McCain, Steven Waldman reports that both the number and percentage of evangelical voters was higher for McCain than it was for Bush in 2004.
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