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.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Jim Bunning’s (R-Ky.) recent one-man stand against legislation extending unemployment benefits offered a high-profile airing of a popular GOP message: Deficit spending, in almost any form, will cause more harm than good to a fragile economy.
Rep. Gary Peters may have gotten a little overzealous in his criticism of Sen. Jim Bunning’s actions in blocking a bill to extend unemployment benefits — and violated House rules in the process. In a Feb. 26 press release, Peters railed against Bunning for his actions, but then he went one step further and urged [...]
AP reports that Sen. Jim Bunning has finally relented in the face of days of attacks by Democrats and pleading by several of his fellow Republicans and the Senate will vote on an unemployment benefit extension tonight. The bill is expected to pass by a wide margin.
Because of Sen. Jim Bunning’s procedural trickery to prevent a vote on a bill to extend federal unemployment benefits, the passage of that bill — which also includes a necessary fix to Medicare, authorization for federal transportation projects and much more — will likely take until the end of this week. The Detroit Free Press [...]
An attempt to pass a bill to extend unemployment benefits to avoid having hundreds of thousands of American lose those benefits was thwarted on Thursday and Friday when Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Kent.) was the sole voice refusing to pass the bill by unanimous consent. But Mike Lillis, the congressional correspondent for our sister site the [...]
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