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.
Canada’s environmental agency is asking for comments on plans to develop an underground nuclear waste storage facility 50 miles from Michigan along the eastern shore of Lake Huron.
The proposed dump or “deep geologic repository” would be located in the Ontario municipality of Kincardine, next to the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, the continent’s largest nuclear power plant. According to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Registry, the repository would store nuclear waste from power plants across Ontario. Nuclear power provides about half of Ontario’s electricity.
In the U.S., plans to store nuclear waste underground at Yucca Mountain in Nevada have been derailed by opposition from the public, with many people expressing concern about the safety of transporting the nuclear waste to the storage site.
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