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.
Today, Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) plans to introduce a standalone bill to continue federally extended unemployment insurance benefits. The jobs bill, also known as H.R. 4213 or the extenders package, that included the extension along with a number of other provisions failed to move forward to a vote last week. Since the beginning of June, [...]
Despite some calls for un-bundling the various provisions of the extenders bill and passing each provision separately, Senate Democrats are apparently intent on keeping the whole thing as one big package. The Hill reports that they are working behind the scenes to get the full package passed rather than trying to pass the Medicaid funding [...]
Politico is reporting on the FBI documenting a significant increase in threats aimed at members of Congress, including Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan.
One Michigan has announced that it will host vigils in Detroit and Lansing Tuesday to continue calls for the passage of the DREAM Act and to support three undocumented youth and a supporter arrested Monday during a sit-in protest at Sen. John McCain’s Tucson, AZ office. The DREAM Act, supporters say, would create a path [...]
WASHINGTON — With 7,000 Americans exhausting their unemployment insurance (UI) each day, Senate Democrats are hoping this week to pass legislation extending those benefits nationwide — a bill that’s been held up for weeks while upper-chamber leaders haggle over a series of controversial Republican amendments. First, though, those Democrats are taking every opportunity to place [...]
WASHINGTON — With the nation’s insurers having dropped their support for the health reforms moving through Congress, Senate Democrats are taking daring steps to rally the backing of another powerful medical lobby: doctors. The Senate this week is set to take up a $245 billion proposal, introduced hastily just a week ago by Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), to prevent scheduled pay cuts for doctors who treat Medicare patients — a long-term fix to the physician pay quandary that dwarfs the one-year patch contained in the Senate Finance Committee’s reform bill.
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 [...]
U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow was named to chair the Senate Agriculture subcommittee on energy, science, and technology on Monday. In a statement released from her Senate office, Stabenow said:
A conference committee of the U.S. House and Senate has reached a compromise on legislation that would provide tax credits to consumers who turned in older, less fuel efficient cars and trucks and purchased new, more fuel efficient vehicles. The Detroit News reports:
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s move today to install strict new fuel efficiency and emission standards for the nation’s vehicles has left some Michigan Democrats in a bind. On one hand, they have a long history of protecting their famously regional industry from new regulations, including stricter fuel efficiency standards. On the other hand, they [...]
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