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.
Michigan Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Detroit) is among a group of lawmakers demanding Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) provide a briefing on the House’s defense of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The Washington Blade reports on the letter: “As Members who believe that DOMA is unconstitutional and support the President’s decision to [...]
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has named House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R- MI) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) as picks to serve on the House-Senate ‘supercommittee’ charged with coming up with more spending cuts under the recent debt deal.
The National Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Monday announced it was unleashing robocall messages to voters in every Congressional district in Michigan being held by a Republican.
Rep. Thad McCotter (R-Livonia) is finding himself as the target of strong criticism from government watchdogs for giving a contract to a company owned by Saul Anuzis, former head of the Michigan Republican Party and the brother of his chief of staff, to do promotional work for a committee that McCotter intends to eliminate. Politico [...]
U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Livonia) has signed a letter, along with Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), demanding that President Barack Obama fire Harry Knox. The Congressmen along with leading Catholics sent the letter to Obama because Knox stood by a March 2009 comment by Knox in which he said the Pope was “hurting people in [...]
U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter was evidently in support of provisions he has since labeled “death panels” before he was against them. The Republican from Livonia has been a vocal critic of a provision in the health care reform bill currently being debated on Capitol Hill because he has claimed it will lead to mandated euthanasia.
Rep. Thad McCotter’s reputation for inflated and inflammatory rhetoric surely won’t be diminished by a statement he released along with House GOP leader John Boehner claiming that the health care reform bill being crafted by House Democrats is designed to get elderly people to commit suicide. The two GOP leaders wrote:
U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Holland) stars in and apparently helped produce an ad, along with House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, that claims that President Obama has made America less safe by closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and ending the practice of torture for detainees.
Saying the Democrats’ Detroit bailout plan “guarantees failure at taxpayer expense,” House Republicans on Wednesday introduced an alternative blueprint asking union workers to take a pay cut and give up benefits. The current powers that be — both in Washington and Detroit — can’t be trusted to fix a problem they created, the Republicans say. [...]
Multiple media outlets are reporting now that the U.S. House of Representatives has approved an offshore drilling bill. The bill comes in response to pressure from conservatives for more domestic oil production, and in the wake of President Bush’s lifting of a moratorium on offshore drilling.
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