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.
Politico named the potential matchup between former Republican U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra and incumbent Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow as one of the top ten Senate races in the country for 2012. The publication says:
With the deadline for filing campaign finance reports this week, Sen. Debbie Stabenow announced that she raised $1 million for next year’s election, matching her chief Republican competitor, Rep. Pete Hoekstra.
Clark Durant, the charter schools magnate who is running for the Republican nomination to challenge Sen. Debbie Stabenow in 2012, announced that his campaign had raised $750,000 in the first six weeks of his campaign.
The Michigan chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans, a prominent group of gay conservatives, is calling on Gary Glenn, leader of the American Family Association of Michigan, to withdraw from next year’s race for Debbie Stabenow’s seat in the U.S. Senate.
The American Lung Association is speaking out strongly against a bill that would remove the EPA’s ability to regulate activities that produce greenhouse gases, including an amendment offered by Sen. Debbie Stabenow that would eliminate that regulation for two years.
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.
Today, Democratic Sens. Debbie Stabenow (Mich.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.) took to the Senate floor to argue for the Americans Want to Work Act, a bill extending the maximum number of weeks of unemployment insurance benefits to 119. The legislation also extends the HIRE Act payroll tax exemption and doubles a tax credit for businesses [...]
Despite its small size, the 99ers’ rally accomplished an important goal: It got the attention of the press, and advocates for the 99ers see the press as the key to creating pressure for legislation.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan has introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate that would create a fifth tier of unemployment benefits for the 99ers — the long-term unemployed who have exhausted the 99 weeks of benefits provided in the existing four tiers that are available. In a statement from her office, she said:
On Friday, I participated in a reporters’ call with Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), one of the loudest proponents of the immediate passage of the extension of federal unemployment insurance benefits, as well as Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moodys.com, and Heather Boushey of the Center for American Progress. The topic was the Senate’s failure to [...]
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