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 Office of the U.S. Trade Representative under the Bush administration struck a secret deal with the European Union that could open up a door for foreign ownership of liquefied natural gas terminals and other dangerous chemical and energy facilities. The agreement may also challenge federal, state and local regulations of those facilities as barriers to international trade. Details of the negotiations came to light after a Michigan Messenger inquiry and federal lawsuit seeking disclosure of the agreement.
“National security” endangered, claims Bush administration The U.S. government’s ban on some forms of online gambling just cost American taxpayers a bundle of money — but the Bush administration won’t say how much. In another example of what critics have called the Bush administration’s near-fetish for secrecy, the Office of the United States Trade Representative [...]
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