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 on-again, off-again meeting between House GOP leaders and the sponsors of a bill to create a new tier of federal unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed finally took place on Thursday in Washington.
As the deadline on a possible federal government shutdown looms today, yesterday’s scheduled meeting between House GOP leaders and the sponsors of a bill to extend unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless was canceled so they could focus on negotiations with the president.
The meeting that House GOP leaders said they would have with the two legislators who are pushing for the establishment of a Tier 5 for unemployment insurance that would give an additional 14 weeks of benefits for the long-term jobless will happen on Thursday.
A couple of Democrats in the legislature are planning to submit a bill to restore the six weeks of state unemployment benefits cut by a bill signed into law this week — and they’re hoping Gov. Snyder will support the bill.
Gov. Rick Snyder tried to put a positive spin on the new Michigan law that reduces the length of state unemployment benefits from 26 to 20 weeks — the lowest in the nation.
The National Employment Law Project reacted strongly to the passage of a bill that would shorten state unemployment benefits in Michigan from 26 to 20 weeks, calling the move a “crushing blow to the state’s unemployment insurance program and the workers it is designed to serve.”
Michigan’s long-term unemployed may soon be called 93ers instead of 99ers after the Republican-led state legislature passed a bill to reduce Tier 1 unemployment benefits from 26 weeks to 20 weeks for those who apply for benefits after January, 2012.
Reps. Barbara Lee and Bobby Scott say that the Republican leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives have agreed to sit down and talk with them about their bill to extend federal unemployment benefits for an additional 14 weeks.
The National Employment Law Project said Wednesday that many jobless Michigan residents could lose their extended federal unemployment benefits soon unless the state legislature passes a bill allowing them to qualify for more.
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Bobby Scott (D-VA) are still pushing for a 14-week extension of federal unemployment benefits and are now trying to negotiate with the Republican House leadership on how to offset the cost of the program.
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