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.
More than 30 governors — Republicans and Democrats alike — supported the state aid bill, granting $26.1 billion in fiscal relief to local governments facing yawning budget gaps and signed into law yesterday. Yet only four Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, and Reps. Anh “Joseph” Cao (La.) and Mike Castle [...]
Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the U.S. House of Representatives back into emergency session in the middle of a recess period in order to pass the state aid bill that will send $26.1 billion in federal funds — including more than $600 million to Michigan — to pay for Medicaid and avoid teacher layoffs. All 15 [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm released a statement Tuesday afternoon after the U.S. House of Representatives passed a state aid bill that will send more than $600 million in federal aid to Michigan — and $26.1 billion overall to the states — to fund Medicaid and prevent teacher layoffs. She said:
“We can’t stand by and do nothing while the pink slips are given to men and women who educate our children or keep our communities safe,” President Obama said today, urging the bill’s passage.
While most governors of both parties have been lobbying hard to get Congress to pass the state aid bill being voted on this afternoon by the U.S. House of Representatives, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is objecting to the bill, claiming that it “hijacks” state budgets and that it will do more harm than good. The [...]
President Obama this morning commented on the pending House vote on a state aid bill that would send $26.1 billion in federal funding to the states for Medicaid and education funding to prevent the layoffs of thousands of public school teachers. He encouraged the House to pass the bill so he could sign it into [...]
When the U.S. House of Representatives returns to Washington today for an unexpected session called by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in order to pass a bill to send $26.1 billion in aid to states to help fund Medicaid and prevent teacher layoffs, Rep. Mark Schauer (D-Battle Creek) will vote for the bill — despite concerns [...]
The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities has released estimates of what each state would get if the House passes the Medicaid and school aid bill sent by the Senate tomorrow — and the numbers are higher than previous estimates made by Gov. Jennifer Granholm and by the Detroit News. The previous estimates were for [...]
Tomorrow, the House reconvenes to vote on a $26.1 billion state aid package, providing Medicaid and teachers’ jobs funding to cash-strapped states. And while most Senate Democrats remained mum on the mechanism used to fund the bill — cuts to the food stamp program — House Democrats aren’t.
Michigan stands to receive about $600 million in total aid once the House passes a bill that the Senate passed last week to give $26.1 billion in aid to the states for Medicaid funding and school aid funding to avoid teacher layoffs. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the House back into session for tomorrow during [...]
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