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.
The House Committee on Oversight, Reform and Ethics will hold hearings Tuesday on two piece of legislation to prohibit public employers from extending partner benefits to adults who live with public employees.
The decision by the Michigan Civil Service Commission to authorize partner benefits for state employees is — predictably — coming under fire by the American Family Association of Michigan.
In a note to supporters yesterday Republican Secretary of State candidate and State Sen. Michelle McManus of Lake Leelanau promised to work to repeal the newly enacted health care reform bill which she characterized as a “government takeover of our health care.” It’s unclear what work she could or would do as Secretary of State, [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm issued an executive order on Wednesday opening up all the healthcare plans currently available to state government workers to employees of all local governments, universities and public schools. Those plans include the state’s PPO plan, HMO plans, prescription drug coverage programs, dental-care plans and vision-care plans. In a press release, Granholm said:
WASHINGTON — As conservatives continue to warn that the Democrats’ health reform plans would stick government bureaucrats between doctors and patients, a number of consumers, physicians and former insurance industry employees told lawmakers this week that such bureaucrats are already in place: they’re called private insurance companies.
DETROIT — While President Obama was trying to explain his health care reform plan to the nation with a televised address to a joint session of Congress, a town hall style event sponsored by Detroit Public Radio (WDET), Wayne State University and state Senator Hansen Clarke drew more than 400 people to a local discussion [...]
Michigan Republican Party Chairman Ron Weiser is looking for money to stop health care reform. In fundraising e-mail sent out Tuesday, the former U.S. ambassador to Slovakia claims some Democrats want to cancel private insurance plans and “put your family on Medicare.” The Atlantic’s Chris Good got Weiser’s fundraising letter Tuesday and promptly posted it. [...]
As anticipated, there was a lot of shouting at the health care town hall held by Democratic Rep. John Dingell in Romulus yesterday, with local police even escorting one angry reform opponent from the hall, the Detroit Free Press reports. Dingell is the primary sponsor of HR3200, a bill to expand the public health care [...]
Police are prepared for disruptions at a town hall meeting on health care to be hosted by Democratic U.S. Rep. John Dingell in Romulus tonight, the Detroit Free Press reports. Protesters have disrupted meetings held by other Representatives around the country and Think Progress reports that lobbyist-run groups are organizing an aggressive campaign aimed at [...]
A new report (PDF) put out by Families USA, a non-profit and non-partisan organization that calls itself “the voice for health care consumers,” predicts that more than 160,000 Michigan residents will lose their health insurance by the end of 2010. The report offers a state-by-state look at the data on Americans losing their health insurance [...]
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