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.
Though the job of approving or denying the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline technically falls to the U.S. State Department, President Obama said Tuesday that he will make the ultimate decision on the project.
In a time of nearly universal partisan rancor, President Obama is receiving apparent support for the jobs plan he announced on national television last night from perhaps an unusual and unexpected source — Republican Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan.
President Obama spent Labor Day speaking to several thousand union workers at at General Motors’ headquarters at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, calling for an infrastructure project to create more jobs.
On Friday, President Barack Obama spoke to a gathering of stakeholders to announce his plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase fuel efficiency standards and reduce dependence on foreign oil.
Rep. Mike Rogers may support President Obama’s decision to use U.S. forces in Libya but his Republican colleague in the Michigan delegation, Rep. Justin Amash, is proposing a bill to put a stop to the action unless Congress authorizes the use of force.
As American forces began bombing targets in Libya over the weekend, Rep. Mike Rogers from Michigan’s 8th District — chairman of the House Intelligence Committee — met with President Obama at the White House and supported the president’s actions:
Reuters points out one fascinating subplot to the story of whether the Obama administration will approve completion of the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast: It would help make his most prominent political adversaries even richer.
As expected, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper did push President Obama for a quick decision to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry tar sands crude from Alberta, Canada to the the Gulf Coast of the United States, during their meeting Friday.
President Obama will meet today with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the subject of the Keystone XL pipeline, still under consideration for approval by the State Department, will almost certainly be a topic of conversation.
A new survey from Public Policy Polling shows that, despite last month’s massive Republican sweep of all the statewide offices, President Obama would win reelection against any of the presumptive Republican presidential candidates if the 2012 election were held today. In fact, the only candidate who manages to keep the race within double digits is [...]
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