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.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told a man with a chronic disease that he opposes his right to use medical marijuana to help with his condition.
Despite promises from the Obama administration to use $50 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to fund loan modifications and prevent hundreds of thousands of homeowners from losing their homes, a new report from the CBO says that the administration will only spend a quarter of the promised money on the program. The [...]
White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Thursday that the Obama administration still expects to recoup $36.1 billion it invested in General Motors and Chrysler to get them through their managed bankruptcies last year — but likely not the $13.4 billion that was given to those companies without strings attached in the waning days of [...]
Expecting to emerge from tomorrow’s election with control of the U.S. House of Representatives and possibly the Senate as well, the Republicans are planning to use their newfound power to attack the Obama administration’s environmental policies, particularly the EPA’s attempts to regulate greenhouse gases as a pollutant. The Lansing State Journal reports:
The Senate may finally have managed to pass the unemployment benefits extension bill but another policy advocated by the White House that would have been hugely beneficial to Michigan has been voted down by a sizable margin. Originally part of the larger “extenders bill,” a provision to extend about $10 billion in aid to the [...]
After being mentioned for a dozen jobs when President Obama first took office, and twice making a relatively short list of possible candidates for the Supreme Court, Gov. Jennifer Granholm is now being mentioned by Politico as one to watch as a new face in the administration after her term as governor ends. And she [...]
General Motors, newly restructured after bankruptcy proceedings last year, announced on Monday its first quarterly profit since the second quarter of 2007, earning $865 million in the first three months of the year. Automotive News reports:
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, preparing for another presidential run in 2012 after finishing 2nd to John McCain in the Republican primary in 2008, has a new book coming out that accuses the White House of micromanaging business decisions made by General Motors now that the government owns a significant portion of stock in the [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm says she is pleased with the action being taken by the administration of President Barack Obama, but feels the feds can still do more. Granholm and other Great Lakes governors met with Obama officials at the White House Monday afternoon. During that meeting, Granholm said the administration said it is taking many [...]
The Detroit News has an article assessing how the policies of the Obama administration have affected the state of Michigan, particularly on economic questions. The opinion of the experts they cite suggests that without those policies, the auto bailout in particular, Michigan’s economic situation would be infinitely worse:
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