Reader: "Nearly 870,000 people in Michigan have asthma -- about 9 percent of the state's population. That's a 15 percent increase from the late 1980s, according to 2003 figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the latest data available. Michigan ranks fourth in the nation in the prevalence of asthma. Nearly half the cases are in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb and Livingston counties: about 290,000 adults and 100,000 children"

NathanNewman.org: "One of Miers only qualifications for her nomination is that she was the head of a major corporate law firm, Locke, Liddle & Sappe.
Where under her leadership, the firm had to pay a $22 million settlement for aiding a client in defrauding investors"

Bush Names Harriet Miers to Supreme Court
Miers came with Bush to the White House in 2001 as staff secretary, the person who screens all the documents that cross the president's desk. She was promoted to deputy chief of staff before Bush named her counsel after his reelection in November. She succeeded Alberto R. Gonzales, another longtime Bush confidant, who was elevated to attorney general.