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.
When the U.S. Senate approved the compromise bill to extend the Bush tax cuts and federal unemployment benefits on Tuesday, Michigan’s two Democratic senators were split. Sen. Debbie Stabenow voted in favor of the bill while Sen. Carl Levin voted against it.
Under fire by gay rights groups for not pushing hard enough for the repeal of the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy, and facing the possibility that the new Republican majority would not vote for repeal after being sworn in, President Obama on Wednesday called Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, [...]
Sen. Carl Levin (D-Michigan), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is negotiating with Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) over withdrawal of an amendment that would repeal the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy from this year’s defense authorization bill. The Wall Street Journal reports:
Sen. Carl Levin took a rather controversial stand for a politician from Michigan during a conference in Detroit on Wednesday, calling for government mandates to replace fuel efficiency standards in order to push the auto companies to be more innovative and aggressive in pushing electric and hybrid vehicles to market. Fox News reports:
Tuesday afternoon the U.S. Senate is scheduled to vote for cloture on the 2011 defense authorization bill, which includes a provision that would lift the current Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy prohibiting gays from openly serving in the military. Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, isn’t sure they have the 60 [...]
George Packer’s New Yorker article, The Empty Chamber, is getting a lot of attention in the media for its scathing look at arcane rules in the U.S. Senate that make it incredibly difficult to get even routine actions taken if the minority party decides to be obstructionist. Sen. Carl Levin is quoted in the article, [...]
Sen. Carl Levin reacted to Indiana state officials downplaying the threat of Asian carp reaching the Great Lakes after the invasive and voracious fish were found in the Wabash river by sending a letter to the governor urging him to take that threat more seriously. The Detroit News reports:
Sen. Carl Levin, Michigan’s longtime Senator who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, told the New York Times that it is unlikely that the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay will be closed by the end of President Obama’s presidential term. And he largely blames the Obama administration for that:
As the U.S. Senate prepares to debate several financial industry regulation bills and the SEC has brought charges against Goldman Sachs for fraud, Sen. Carl Levin has fired a shot across the bow of the giant investment firm by releasing a series of emails that show the company profiting by betting against the American housing [...]
Sen. Carl Levin is asking the Pentagon to consider prohibiting any new contracts for service in Afghanistan to Blackwater (now known as Xe) because of a long track record of scandal over the last few years in that country and in Iraq. Levin, who just held hearings on some of those scandals as chairman of [...]
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