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.
Gary Glenn, the head of the American Family Association of Michigan, has made it official. He will compete in the Republican primary for the nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow in 2012.
Gary Glenn, head of the American Family Association of Michigan, has announced he is considering a run for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2012.
Former U.S. Congressman Pete Hoekstra (R-Holland) told supporters Friday that he will not seek the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Lansing).
The U.S. Senate voted 65-31 Saturday to repeal a law which prohibits openly gay citizens from serving in the U.S. armed forces. The vote came mid-afternoon, after the same body voted in the morning 63-33 to invoke closure, or move the bill to the floor for a final vote.
In a Saturday session a week before Christmas, the U.S. Senate voted failed to overcome a procedural vote to move the DREAM Act forward.
“We’re feeling optimistic about the vote,” said Mohammad Abdollahi.
George Packer’s New Yorker article, The Empty Chamber, is getting a lot of attention in the media for its scathing look at arcane rules in the U.S. Senate that make it incredibly difficult to get even routine actions taken if the minority party decides to be obstructionist. Sen. Carl Levin is quoted in the article, [...]
The Senate may finally have managed to pass the unemployment benefits extension bill but another policy advocated by the White House that would have been hugely beneficial to Michigan has been voted down by a sizable margin. Originally part of the larger “extenders bill,” a provision to extend about $10 billion in aid to the [...]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Democratic leaders won quick praise from seniors this week when they vowed to close the nettlesome coverage gap in Medicare’s prescription drug benefit. Left unmentioned, however, was how they plan to pay for that promise without unraveling a friendly deal struck earlier in the year between the pharmaceutical lobby and Democratic leaders in the White House and Senate.
U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow said in a speech on Monday that she does not favor the so-called employer mandate that would require employers to extend health care benefits to employees or else face penalties. Instead, Michigan’s junior senator, according to Crain’s Detroit Business, “told an audience of about 200 at the Southfield Westin that the [...]
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