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.
U.S. Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (R-Livonia) says Republican Rep. Fred Upton and the Democrats are denying Americans an opportunity to innovate — and he seems to have invented a law that does not exist.
The Republican-led House has, temporarily at least, failed to extend three surveillance provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act that are set to expire this month.
The Bush White House sent administration officials to illegally campaign for Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Livonia) at taxpayer expense during the 2006 midterm elections, according to a U.S. Office of Special Counsel investigation released this month.
Michigan’s Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (R-Livonia) has published a piece on RedState.com in which he says Republicans “must not accept” an invitation from President Barack Obama to attend a healthcare summit. In the editorial, McCotter writes:
The League of Conservation Voters annual report ranking members of Congress on their actions on environment, public health and energy issues gives Democratic Senators Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow perfect scores and ranks the entire Democratic delegation at 93 percent or above. The Republicans scored far lower with retiring Vern Ehlers of Grand Rapids and [...]
The Washington Times is reporting that Michigan U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Livonia) will be speaking Thursday afternoon at the 37th annual Conservative Political Action Conference. According to the report:
U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Livonia) has signed a letter, along with Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), demanding that President Barack Obama fire Harry Knox. The Congressmen along with leading Catholics sent the letter to Obama because Knox stood by a March 2009 comment by Knox in which he said the Pope was “hurting people in [...]
The bill introduced last year by Thaddeus McCotter, the 11th District Congressman, to provide a tax deduction of up to $3,500 for pet related expenses is gaining traction in cyberland. The Republican’s plan is winning with pet lovers — over 130,000 reports the Examiner.com. That’s because the bill has been supported by groups like D.E.L.T.A. [...]
The wily Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (R-Livonia), in an appearance on CNN Monday night, told host John Roberts that President Barack Obama needs to stop calling bankers “fat cats.” “I think that first the president should stop calling them fat cats, because people like cats,” McCotter said. “I don’t know you’d want to put that on [...]
Former GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin will kick off the national book tour for her new book “Going Rogue” in Grand Rapids. The former Alaska Gov will appear in Grand Rapids two days after a sit down with Oprah Winfrey in Chicago. Palin’s appearance is scheduled for Nov. 18 from 7-9 p.m. at the [...]
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