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.
In a sit-down interview with the Michigan Messenger’s sister site the Colorado Independent in Denver last week, U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Colorado Congresswoman Diana DeGette said the natural gas industry should support full public disclosure of the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing as a “protection” from potential litigation.
LAS VEGAS, NV — Speaker of the U.S. House Nancy Pelosi told a gathering of progressive bloggers and activists Saturday morning that the GOP has been “obstructing” Democratic attempts to fix the economy. “How many people can wait six to eight weeks for a check that should have been in the mail a long time [...]
LAS VEGAS, NV — Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, told a crowd of 2,000 progressive bloggers and activists Saturday that while pressure is building for swift passage of the DREAM Act, it is unlikely to move until comprehensive immigration reform moves. “There is a difference of opinion on how to move [...]
“This is an American proposal that honors the traditions of our country,” says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The Democratic health care reform bill passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Sunday night through normal parliamentary procedures rather than under the self-executing “deem and pass” rule, as some had suggested might be done. That reality effectively mutes the threat by Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, made in a letter to House Speaker Nancy [...]
As the Detroit Auto Show gets underway this week, thousands are expected to attend the event, including U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. That announcement lead the national Tea Party movement to call on their supporters to converge on the auto show to protest “Government Motors.” The folks in the movement are opposed to the bailouts [...]
WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats will return to Washington Monday to begin a long-awaited floor debate on the health-reform bill they hope to pass before Christmas. But it’s hardly the last battle they’ll be forced to wage on the health-care front.
With 100,000 Michigan workers and nearly 1.5 million workers nationwide facing the prospect of their unemployment insurance benefits ending before the close of the year, Gov. Jennifer Granholm has joined with 21 other governors in sending a letter to congressional leaders in Washington asking them to pass an extension of those benefits. A press release [...]
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said on Thursday that Congress will get to work on passing an extension of unemployment benefits now that the August recess is over and lawmakers have returned to the nation’s capitol. The Detroit News reports:
U.S. Rep. Dave Camp, a Republican from Midland, came out swinging on Tuesday charging that the federal stimulus has been a failure, and a plan by Democrats to address the health care crisis in the United States will result in lost coverage for Americans.
In a conference call with reporters, the ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee accused President Obama of changing his appearance in Warren today from a town hall meeting to a speech because he wanted to avoid questions.
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