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.
Rep. Pete Hoekstra went on the offensive this past weekend over charges that he was being hypocritical in criticizing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for accusing the CIA of lying when he had done the same thing himself only two years ago. After many prominent Democrats publicly pointed to Hoekstra’s claim that the CIA had lied [...]
When U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra announced his candidacy for governor in 2010 on Tim Skubick’s WKAR show “Off the Record” a few weeks ago, Skubick asked him how he planned to run for governor while still working in the House of Representatives on behalf of Michigan’s 2nd Congressional District. “Well when you go back to [...]
Rep. Pete Hoekstra, former chair of the House Intelligence Committee and candidate for governor in 2010, is outraged — outraged — that Nancy Pelosi would dare to accuse the CIA of giving less-than-comprehensive briefings or, worse yet, of lying to Congress. Those accusations, he said on CNN, are “outrageous.” And on Fox News he said, [...]
To the long list of political ironies, add one more: The desire of Republicans, particularly Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan, to implicate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the torture scandal by saying she knew about it early on and did nothing to stop it may have actually made it more likely that a Truth Commission [...]
Rep. Pete Hoekstra, a Republican candidate for governor and former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, says he has seen firsthand the same intelligence briefings given to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and that it included specific information about the use of waterboarding and other forms of torture and abuse used on terror detainees.
In an interview, 2010 GOP gubernatorial hopeful slams Obama for making the wrong moves to save auto industry, says top Democrats on Capitol Hill are “more interested in getting rid of the manufacturing industry than keeping it.”
As part of his energy plan, U.S. Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Brighton) proposed a plan this past summer to provide payments to consumers who traded in older cars and purchased newer, fuel efficient models. The proposal died.
A bill to allow bankruptcy judges to rewrite mortgages for people facing foreclosure was approved by the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday. In introducing the legislation bill sponsor Democratic Rep. John Conyers Jr. of Detroit said: Detroit has had more than 100,000 foreclosures over the last three years. And they are continuing at the rate of [...]
Democratic leaders, conceding that their efforts to bail out America’s automakers stand no chance in Congress this week, are extending a final opportunity to the Big Three: Submit specific plans for getting the companies back on track and repaying the taxpayers, they offered, and Congress will return to Washington in December to consider legislation.
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