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.
In his first public comment on TransCanada’s plan to build a new pipeline to move tar sands oil from Alberta to Port Arthur, Texas, Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) criticized the project as unwise.
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.
“We’re feeling optimistic about the vote,” said Mohammad Abdollahi.
Tea Party darling Sharron Angle of Nevada has made the Michigan city of Dearborn part of the political fodder in her bid to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The Associated Press reports Angle told a crowd of supporters in Mesquite, NV, that Dearborn has been taken over by militant Islamic law.
The battle between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Tea Party favorite Sharon Angle in Nevada has some political watchers in Michigan upset. Reid released an advertisement Aug. 11 titled “Over the line.” The ad is narrated by Bill Ames, president of the Peace Officers Research Association of Nevada. During the ad, Angle’s voice is [...]
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed for cloture on Monday on a $115 billion bill that includes an unemployment benefit filing extension through November, an extension of heightened federal aid to states for Medicaid funding, and several other provisions. MLive.com reports that the Senate leaders hope to have the bill finished by the end [...]
WASHINGTON — For millions of unemployed workers, the recession is poised to go from bad to worse.
More than 3.2 million laid-off Americans, including 183,000 Michigan residents, will prematurely exhaust their unemployment insurance in the first quarter of next year unless Congress intervenes, an advocacy group warned Monday.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) ruffled feathers this month when he drafted a detailed strategy for stalling the health reform bill moving through the upper chamber. Yet Gregg is hardly alone, and health-care legislation is hardly the only target of the GOP’s delay tactics.
WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats will return to Washington Monday to begin a long-awaited floor debate on the health-reform bill they hope to pass before Christmas. But it’s hardly the last battle they’ll be forced to wage on the health-care front.
WASHINGTON — Health insurance companies, for decades exempt from federal anti-trust laws, are exploiting that privilege to churn profits at the expense of patients, a number of Senate Democrats charged Wednesday. The lawmakers — including U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) — want to repeal the exemption as part of broader efforts this year to overhaul the nation’s dysfunctional health care system.
“There is no reason why insurance companies should be allowed to form monopolies and dictate health choices,” Reid told the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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