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 12 Michigan incumbents that are seeking reelection to Congress have all raised far more money than their challengers in the first quarter of 2010, the Detroit News reports. According to filings with the Federal Elections Commission Democrat Gary Peters of Bloomfield Township has $1.7 million on hand while his opponent in the 9th district, [...]
Congressional Quarterly’s CQ Politics site has an article analyzing all of the races for the U.S. House of Representatives in every district in every state. The point to three races in Michigan that should be major battleground districts in 2010, races that both parties have already targeted as either possible to win or vital to [...]
WASHINGTON — Shortly after leaving their offices on June 24, dozens of Hill staffers, foreign policy experts, and old Washington hands made their way to the lower floor of the Capitol Visitor Center, a sprawling complex below the halls of Congress. The occasion was the low-key launch of the new House Sovereignty Caucus, the project of three Republican members — U.S. Reps. Doug Lamborn of Colorado, Scott Garrett of New Jersey, and Michigan’s own Thaddeus McCotter of Livonia — who had become more and more worried about Americans ceding their rights to foreign institutions.
The U.S. House has approved an appropriations bill that designates $475 million for efforts to clean up pollution and stop invasive species in the Great Lakes. The Detroit News reports that the bill includes:
Sarah Binder notes that location played a big factor in how Republicans voted for the auto bailout bill in the House earlier this week. Republicans from rust belt states, especially Michigan, voted for the bill while more than 80% of their GOP colleagues voted against it.
FoxBusiness looks at data from Open Secrets that reveals that many legislators working on an auto bailout package have investments, some of them for a significant amount of money, in one or more of the Big Three automakers. The largest investment by far: Rep. John Dingell of Michigan.
Last week we reported on Rep. Thad McCotter’s almost total absence in the two years he’s been on the House Financial Services Committee. The Livonia Republican apparently could not find either the interest or the time to attend a single committee hearing dealing with the current financial crisis as it developed.
Constituents are chiming in on U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s proposal to spend $700 billion to bail out Wall Street. Bloomberg.com reported yesterday that Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan has received at least 300 calls and 100 emails from people asking why the government will help businessmen who have run their companies into the ground.
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