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.
Congressman Pete Hoekstra, R-Holland, has been denied access to information about detainees being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Hoekstra, who is running for the GOP nomination for governor in 2010, demanded that the Department of Defense and Defense Secretary Robert Gates provide information about those persons being held at Gitmo in order to better inform [...]
Rep. Pete Hoekstra has responded to a letter sent to him by a group of former military intelligence and national security officials criticizing his position on bringing Gitmo inmates to a maximum security prison in Standish, Michigan. His spokesman did not address the substantive criticism in the letter, choosing instead to dismiss it as a [...]
A group of former national security officials and military officers who have worked on the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals have written a letter to Rep. Pete Hoekstra criticizing him for “politicizing” the debate over a possible plan to transfer Gitmo detainees to a maximum security prison in Standish, Michigan. The writers of the letter include [...]
As Daphne Eviatar has written this week, the residents of Standish, Mich., are starting to turn against a proposal to send terrorism detainees from Guantanamo Bay to their town’s prison, a proposal floated by the legislature and seconded by Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) to alleviate Standish’s economic woes. David Munson, the owner of a tavern [...]
“They want to kill you; they want to kill me; they want to kill our families,” said the chief steward for the union representing workers at Standish Maximum Correctional Facility in Standish, Mich., referring to Guantanamo Bay detainees. The steward, Tom Kerrins, spoke at a “town hall” meeting held in a local church yesterday to [...]
Public opposition to a plan being considered to transfer detainees from Guantanamo Bay to a maximum security prison in Standish that is slated to be closed is becoming more vocal. There are rallies scheduled today and Thursday against the plan, including prominent Republican candidates for governor in 2010:
Rep. Pete Hoekstra, candidate for the Republican nomination to be Michigan’s governor in 2010 and former chair of the House Intelligence Committee, testified before the Michigan Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday in opposition to the plan being considered to move the detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay to a soon to be closed maximum security [...]
Michigan will not be able to keep the Standish maximum security prison operating by housing inmates from California, because Golden State officials have decided they cannot afford to send prisoners to Michigan, the Detroit Free Press reports. The 356-bed Standish prison is one of eight facilities that the Michigan Department of Corrections recently announced would [...]
Rep. Pete Hoekstra, who opposes a plan currently under consideration to move the detainees at Guantanamo Bay to the soon to be closed maximum security prison at Standish, Michigan, is requesting that state officials take a tour of the Gitmo facility. Roll Call reports:
The Obama administration is sending officials to take a closer look at the maximum security prison at Standish, Michigan to evaluate it as a possible place in which to house Guantanamo bay detainees after that base is closed. The Detroit News reports:
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