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.
Our AINN colleague Spencer Ackerman will be blogging about the Blackwater hearings being held today in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan. In his first post, prior to the hearings starting, he notes that some in Congress are pushing legislation to prohibit private security companies from doing [...]
Employees of the CIA-connected and Michigan-owned private security corporation Blackwater diverted hundreds of weapons, including more than 500 AK-47 assault rifles, from a U.S. weapons bunker in Afghanistan intended to equip Afghan policemen, according to an investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee, opened hearings on the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy by calling for the repeal of that policy and for gay and lesbian soldiers to be allowed to serve openly. The Lansing State Journal reports:
The bipartisan Michigan congressional delegation in Washington D.C. has successfully pushed the Army Corps of Engineers and other federal agencies to divert an additional $13 million to help fight the Asian carp. Sen. Carl Levin has been circulating a letter in the Senate while Rep. Bart Stupak and other Michigan legislators in the House have [...]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, urged the Obama administration not to surge U.S. troops before accelerating their Afghan counterparts. That used to be the perspective of Defense Secretary Robert Gates as well. But, of course, President Obama did the opposite, with Gates’ support. In his [...]
WASHINGTON — As I pointed out a couple weeks ago when reporting on a joint press conference, Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, seems more comfortable with increasing U.S. troops in Afghanistan than Defense Secretary Bob Gates does. And today, when Mullen, testified for his Senate hearing to be renominated as [...]
The Associated Press reports that the Obama administration is seriously considering transferring all of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to a joint prison/courtroom complex in the United States and a Michigan prison in Standish is one of the two sites being strongly considered for the location.
The federal government’s cash for clunkers program kicked off on Monday with enormous interest from prospective car buyers and dealerships eager to get in on the savings before the $1 billion appropriation for the program is used up. With tax rebates ranging from $3,500 to $4,500 for trading in an older, less fuel efficient vehicle [...]
Our two U.S. Senators, Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin, announced more stimulus money bound for Michigan this week. $1.9 million will help fund wind energy research in the state, while $42 million is earmarked for rural wastewater projects around the state. In the press release, Stabenow said of the latter projects, “Water contamination not only [...]
An interesting thing has happened over the last few weeks as the situation with GM and the federal government has evolved. While the automaker and its political benefactors in the state were initially insistent that bankruptcy had to be absolutely off the table, not even a remote possibility, now that it appears to be quite [...]
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