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.
Though the U.S. Congress currently has no official say in the process of deciding whether to greenlight the Keystone XL pipeline project, which would send tar sands crude from Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas, leaders in both parties are gearing up for a fight on the subject anyway.
A Congressional investigation has revealed that oil and gas service companies are violating the Safe Drinking Water Act federal by pumping diesel into the ground as part of the fracking process.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Democratic leaders won quick praise from seniors this week when they vowed to close the nettlesome coverage gap in Medicare’s prescription drug benefit. Left unmentioned, however, was how they plan to pay for that promise without unraveling a friendly deal struck earlier in the year between the pharmaceutical lobby and Democratic leaders in the White House and Senate.
The New York Times has a post-mortem analysis of how Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) managed to wrest the chairmanship of one of the most powerful committees in the House away from Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) after nearly three decades of leadership from the Michigan Democratic powerhouse:
It’s been widely noted that recently-ousted House Energy and Commerce committee chairman John Dingell (D-Mich.) has used his position to advocate the interests of Michigan’s big automakers. Forbes points out another potentially meaningful difference between Dingell and the new chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) — contributions from the nuclear industry.
Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) has lost his longstanding chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce committee to challenger, and fellow Democratic heavyweight, Henry Waxman (D-Calif.).
By a slim margin, Democratic leaders voted today to remove Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., from his long-held post atop the House Energy and Commerce Committee and replace him with Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., according to reports. The vote in the the House Steering Committee was 25 to 22. Tomorrow, the entire House Democratic caucus will [...]
Wow — things are moving quickly in this brave new post-election world. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is planning to take on Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) as head of the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee, Roll Call reported Wednesday. The 27-term Dingell is a monolith in the [...]
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