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.
Millions of American saw their wealth decline in the last year and many, especially here in Michigan, lost jobs and homes. The lawmakers charged with fixing the economy, however, have fared far better. A new report from the Center for Responsive Politics finds that nearly half of the members of the U.S. Congress are millionaires [...]
Sen. Carl Levin addressed widely expressed fears from Republicans that moving the detainees from Guantanamo Bay to a maximum security prison in Michigan would be risky and dangerous, saying that allowing such fears to determine our actions amounts to giving in to terrorism. Politico reports:
Michigan politicians at the state and federal level are pushing the U.S. Congress to pass stricter rules governing the handling of ballast from ships that go from the oceans to the Great Lakes in order to prevent the costly infestation of invasive species.
In a speech to the Foreign Policy Association on Wednesday night, Michigan Sen. Carl Levin forcefully answered recent claims by former Vice President Dick Cheney that the so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” ordered by the Bush administration to be used on detainees in the war on terror were not torture and that they saved American lives.
Sen. Carl Levin has joined former Governor John Engler in endorsing the idea of holding the detainees currently being held at Guantanamo Bay in Michigan in order to bring federal dollars into the state. CQ Politics reports:
The U.S. Senate passed H.R. 627, the Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights Act of 2009, a law designed to make it more difficult for credit card companies to raise interest rates on their customers unless specific conditions exist related to the creditworthiness of the cardholder. The vote was 90-5. Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan praised [...]
The Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, has released its final report (PDF) tracing the development of the Bush administration’s policies and practices of abusing and torturing detainees after 2001. The report is based on over 200,000 classified and unclassified documents, memos and communications from within the Bush administration and [...]
Democrats in the U.S. Senate have dropped efforts to finance consumer credits and impose new taxes on the biggest oil companies, unable by one vote to overcome a Republican filibuster last week. Republicans had signaled they would force the Democrats to find 60 votes on the oil taxes. President Bush said that $13.5 billion in [...]
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