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.
The Detroit Free Press reports that Federal Bureau of Prisons officials once again toured the Standish maximum security prison, which has been shut down since late last year, to see if it will work as a federal prison. This is the second visit they’ve made and the town is hoping for a positive result that [...]
Long after the controversy over moving detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Michigan has blown over, Rep. Bart Stupak and Gov. Jennifer Granholm are working to get the federal government to reopen the Standish prison as a federal facility under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. The Bay City Times reports:
It’s not the Standish prison, but a prison in Muskegon County is going to stay open because of an agreement to transfer 1,000 inmates there from Pennsylvania’s overcrowded prisons. The Detroit News reports:
Now that we know that the Guantanamo Bay detainees will be moved to a prison in rural Illinois, Gov. Jennifer Granholm is hinting at the possibility of keeping the Standish prison open by housing inmates from Pennsylvania instead. The Detroit News reports:
It appears that months of speculation and debate on whether the soon to be closed prison at Standish should be used to house detainees from Guantanamo Bay will all be for nought. The Detroit News reports that the Obama administration is now focused on a prison in rural Illinois as the leading candidate to house [...]
Marine Maj. Gen. Michael Lehnert is retiring after 36 years of duty and is about to return home to his native Michigan. But before he does, the man who set up the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in 2001 and established the initial rules for treating prisoners held there is speaking out against what happened [...]
The past 24 hours has brought a rash of conflicting reports on whether a proposal to move detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to a maximum security prison in Standish, Michigan is still under consideration. Yesterday afternoon, Fox News reported from unnamed sources that the Standish prison was no longer under consideration as a [...]
The maximum security prison facility in Standish is no longer under consideration by the Obama administration as a relocation site for prisoners currently being held at Guantanamo Bay. Fox News reports the administration is close to making a final decision.
Dave Weigel at the Michigan Messenger’s sister site, the Washington Independent, spent the weekend at the How to Take Back America Conference, sponsored by Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum, in St. Louis. He reports on a speech given at the conference by U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) that contained this rather odd reference to Michigan and [...]
When speculation first began about the possibility of moving the detainees at Guantanamo Bay to a prison in the United States, there were two prisons mentioned as possibilities: the soon-to-close prison in Standish, Michigan and and military prison at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. Now the Kansas location has apparently been ruled out:
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