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.
Congressman Pete Hoekstra (R-Holland) has once again tapped his right wing ties for endorsements. Over the weekend, Hoekstra stumped in Lenawee county in southern Michigan with Iowa Congressman Steve King in tow, reports the Adrian Daily Telegram. King is no stranger to outrageous comments and controversy.
Rep. Pete Hoekstra, a leading GOP candidate for governor, admitted over the weekend to being a member of the Family, a Christian fundamentalist group that operates largely in secret and has a history of ties to some of the world’s most barbaric regimes.
WASHINGTON — The lengthy speech on health care that Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele delivered on Monday was short on details. Steele’s performance at the National Press Club was less a kick-off, more an amplification of a year-long conservative campaign that is entering its final months without much remaining subtlety. Republicans are in the precarious position of arguing for a “pause button,” as Steele put it, in the ongoing negotiations over health care, while Democrats are aware that any pause or slow-down would effectively kill reform in the 111th Congress.
GOP defends state subsidies in ‘New Detroit’; southern states gave auto firms tax-breaks and cash for training.
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