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.
Now that we know that the Guantanamo Bay detainees will be moved to a prison in rural Illinois, Gov. Jennifer Granholm is hinting at the possibility of keeping the Standish prison open by housing inmates from Pennsylvania instead. The Detroit News reports:
The Washington Post reported just before midnight Monday that the Obama administration has agreed to acquire a prison in Illinois to house prisoners from Guantanamo Bay Cuba. The critical step toward fulfilling President Obama’s pledge to shut the Guantanamo detention center will be announced Tuesday, said the official, who reported that Obama has ordered the [...]
It appears that months of speculation and debate on whether the soon to be closed prison at Standish should be used to house detainees from Guantanamo Bay will all be for nought. The Detroit News reports that the Obama administration is now focused on a prison in rural Illinois as the leading candidate to house [...]
Marine Maj. Gen. Michael Lehnert is retiring after 36 years of duty and is about to return home to his native Michigan. But before he does, the man who set up the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in 2001 and established the initial rules for treating prisoners held there is speaking out against what happened [...]
The past 24 hours has brought a rash of conflicting reports on whether a proposal to move detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to a maximum security prison in Standish, Michigan is still under consideration. Yesterday afternoon, Fox News reported from unnamed sources that the Standish prison was no longer under consideration as a [...]
The maximum security prison facility in Standish is no longer under consideration by the Obama administration as a relocation site for prisoners currently being held at Guantanamo Bay. Fox News reports the administration is close to making a final decision.
Dave Weigel at the Michigan Messenger’s sister site, the Washington Independent, spent the weekend at the How to Take Back America Conference, sponsored by Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum, in St. Louis. He reports on a speech given at the conference by U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) that contained this rather odd reference to Michigan and [...]
When speculation first began about the possibility of moving the detainees at Guantanamo Bay to a prison in the United States, there were two prisons mentioned as possibilities: the soon-to-close prison in Standish, Michigan and and military prison at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. Now the Kansas location has apparently been ruled out:
Rep. Pete Hoekstra has responded to a letter sent to him by a group of former military intelligence and national security officials criticizing his position on bringing Gitmo inmates to a maximum security prison in Standish, Michigan. His spokesman did not address the substantive criticism in the letter, choosing instead to dismiss it as a [...]
A group of former national security officials and military officers who have worked on the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals have written a letter to Rep. Pete Hoekstra criticizing him for “politicizing” the debate over a possible plan to transfer Gitmo detainees to a maximum security prison in Standish, Michigan. The writers of the letter include [...]
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