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:
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.
State Reps. Bill Rogers (R-Genoa Township) and Paul Scott (R-Grand Blanc) have introduced bills to fine the Michigan Education Association and penalize teachers in the event of a strike.
The Natural Resources Defense Council just finished a round of polling in the districts of key legislators who voted last week to prevent the EPA from regulating the emission of greenhouse gases, including Michigan’s Rep. Dan Benishek and Rep. Mike Rogers.
Among the first bills submitted in the new congress is HR 67, which would extend some of the expiring provisions of the Patriot Act, as extended and revised in 2005, and the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 for another year. The bill has been referred to the House Intelligence Committee, which Rogers [...]
Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Howell) will head the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the incoming Congress, reports the Associated Press.
Congressman Mike Rogers (Brighton) says the man accused by the U.S. government of leaking classified documents to the website Wikileaks should face the death penalty. Pvt. Bradley Manning, the soldier accused in the leaks of sensitive documents relating to the ongoing war efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq, has become a cause celebre in many circles.
ThinkProgress points out that Rep. Pete Hoekstra, running to be governor of a state with a 13.6 percent unemployment rate, missed the last two votes in the House on the unemployment benefits extension bill because he’s attending fundraisers. Last night, while the House was voting to pass the bill, Hoekstra was at a country club [...]
It didn’t take long for Democrats in the 8th Congressional District to start shopping for a replacement candidate after Kande Ngalamulume announced he was done. As a result, a Facebook group was formed to recruit outgoing Gov. Jennifer Granholm.
Kande Ngalamulume has ended his Democratic campaign to unseat incumbent Republican Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Brighton). WLNS, the CBS affiliate in Lansing, reports Ngalamulume announced his decision by email.
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