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The Michigan Messenger going forward

By Staff Report | 11.16.11

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 [...]

Colorado-based abstinence program provided false and misleading information to Michigan students

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.16.11

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.

Class action lawsuit filed against MERS over unpaid taxes

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.15.11

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.

Schuette fights important mercury regulations

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By Eartha Jane Melzer | 11.14.11

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.

Posts Tagged Joe Knollenberg

Knollenberg’s personal housing crisis

By Alexa Stanard | 07.30.08 | 6:48 pm

Joe Knollenberg’s calculator must need new batteries. The Oakland County congressman is in hot water in the House for dramatically underreporting the value of his Washington, D.C., home on his personal financial disclosure forms, according to a front-page story in Roll Call on Tuesday. On the Republican’s most recent disclosure forms Knollenberg reported the value [...]

Trott and Trott, Club For Growth pulling the strings on Walberg?

By Todd A. Heywood | 07.28.08 | 9:07 am

Republican rep voted against U.S. House bill to slow housing crisis As the U.S. House was voting to ease the housing market crisis on Wednesday, Republican Rep. Tim Walberg was on the floor casting a dissenting vote. Walberg claimed he voted against the bill because it rewarded risky investments. But there could be another reason. [...]

Campaign finance reports: tight races for Republican congressional incumbents Walberg, Knollenberg

By Eartha Jane Melzer | 07.25.08 | 12:40 pm

Second-quarter campaign-finance reports were due last night from candidates for the U.S. House and Senate, and the telling disclosures are now viewable online at the FEC Web site. Altogether, Republican candidates raised $9,518,684 between April 1 and July 16. Democrats collected $8,722,489 for the same period.

Knollenberg angered over Carter’s plan to talk to Hamas

By Minehaha Forman | 04.18.08 | 5:45 pm

Carter Center is the base for the International Task Force for Disease Eradication and has reviewed more than 100 infectious diseases and identified six as potentially eradicable. The center also provides mental health programs, agricultural programs and disease education programs to families in the Third World.

Democrats target Knollenberg in the state’s hottest congressional race

By Kevin Shopshire | 04.15.08 | 6:30 pm

The U.S. congressional race for Michigan’s 9th District is shaping up as a microcosm of the presidential election in Michigan: an evenly divided red-blue battleground whose recent voting patterns closely follow national trends. The contest has already seen angry confrontations between the candidates’ supporters, dueling videographers seeking damning footage, and now a candidate with the [...]

College students offered money to knock on doors for Knollenberg

By Todd A. Heywood | 03.11.08 | 7:30 pm

Michigan Congressman Joe Knollenberg, a Republican from the 9th Congressional District, will stump for votes in Oakland County in April and joining him will be College Republican club members from the state. At least that is what Michigan Federation of College Republicans (MFCR) Chairman Justin Zatkoff is hoping. “I am going to tell you how [...]

Michigan House Republicans Subpoenaed in Bribery Case

By Michelle Mustonen | 09.18.07 | 10:21 pm

Representatives Joe Knollenberg (R-9th) and Peter Hoekstra (R-2nd) were recently subpoenaed by attorneys in the Brent Wilkes bribery case scheduled for U.S. District Court later this year in California. Wilkes faces up to 30 counts including bribery and fraud charges in a case stemming from the conviction of former Representative Randy Cunningham, a Republican from [...]