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.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the debt limit deal reached by President Obama and the Republican leaders of both houses of Congress on Monday night by a surprisingly easy 269-161 vote. Passage in the Senate is virtually assured. Here’s how the Michigan delegation voted:
A former candidate for the Republican nomination to challenge Congressman John Dingell has filed a lawsuit against Facebook claiming that the social networking company deleted his account, causing irreparable harm to campaign.
The Republican-led House has, temporarily at least, failed to extend three surveillance provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act that are set to expire this month.
Congressman John Conyers says he is ready to run for re-election in 2012. The 81-year-old, 24-term Congressman acknowledged the plan for re-election in an interview with the Detroit News.
Former Alaska Gov. and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has endorsed Republican candidate Rob Steele in his bid to unseat Democratic Rep. John Dingell, reports Mlive.com. The endorsement came on Palin’s Facebook page:
If there is any such thing as a safe seat in Congress it would have to be that of Rep. John Dingell, who has held his spot in Congress for 55 years — longer than any man in the history of the country, a full 25 percent of the entire nation’s existence from the signing [...]
Here’s one of the stranger stories of the election season. Majed Moughni, who ran in the Republican primary for the right to challenge Rep. John Dingell for his seat in Congress and got only 4 percent of the vote, is now suing Dingell for using a catchphrase that Moughni claims he invented and posted to [...]
Reps. John Dingell (D-Dearborn) and Vern Ehlers (R-Grand Rapids), together with Rep. James Oberstar (D-MN) have introduced a House bill that would restore Clean Water Act protections weakened by recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions and guidance from the Bush administration. America’s Commitment to Clean Water Act (H.R. 5088), introduced Wednesday, will legislatively override the effect [...]
A couple of revealing tidbits about the kind of pressure being put on Rep. Bart Stupak by both sides of the Michigan congressional delegation during yesterday’s debate on the health care reform bill. At Politico, Stupak himself talks about the influence of his political mentor, Rep. John Dingell (D-Romulus).
The members of Michigan’s congressional delegation in D.C. are pushing for an increase in funds for Great Lakes clean up and restoration. Sen. Carl Levin and Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) this week submitted the Great Lakes Ecosystem Protection Act of 2010, a bill that would provide long-term annual funding for a variety of projects to [...]
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