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 Tim Walberg says that had GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney been the party’s nominee in 2008, he would never have lost his 7th Congressional District seat to Democrat Mark Schauer.
Congressman Tim Walberg, the Republican representative of the 7th Congressional District, is flirting once again with Birtherism.
Gov. Rick Snyder on Tuesday signed a GOP redistricting plan into law. The new law resets the state’s district maps for state house and senate elections as well as federal congressional elections.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the debt limit deal reached by President Obama and the Republican leaders of both houses of Congress on Monday night by a surprisingly easy 269-161 vote. Passage in the Senate is virtually assured. Here’s how the Michigan delegation voted:
Former 7th Congressional District Rep. Mark Schauer (D-Battle Creek) announced Wednesday he will not run for Congress in 2012.
To mark the first anniversary of when Enbridge formally notified the federal government that an estimated one million gallons of crude oil had been released into the Kalamazoo River watershed, environmentalists are calling on two Republican congressman to stop political attacks aimed at the Environmental Protection Agency.
The National Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Monday announced it was unleashing robocall messages to voters in every Congressional district in Michigan being held by a Republican.
Four Michigan Congressmen have signed a letter to Washington D.C. Mayor Vince Gray demanding that he fall in line with federal restrictions on spending federal money for abortions.
Congressman Tim Walberg (R-Tipton) led the fight on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to cut $20 million from the Nation Endowment for the Arts on Thursday.
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.
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