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.
An investigation by the Michigan Land Use Institute into the Kennecott Minerals Company’s push to dig a sulfide mine in the U.P. wilderness finds that lawmakers from northern Michigan have been accepting freebies from company lobbyists.
Investigative reporter, Glenn Puit, found that Rep. Tom Casperson (R-Escanaba), Sen. Jason Allen (R-Traverse City), and Sen. Mike Prusi (D-Ishpeming) each accepted free meals and beverages from Kennecott lobbyists. Puit wrote that according to state records the value of those items ranged from $731 to $1,170 per legislator from 2003 to 2006. The legislators deny the lobbying had any influence on their public positions on the mine.
But it seems that these lawmakers’ let-the-process-work attitude on the mine proposal is at odds with the views of many constituents. Ninety-six percent of the residents of Big Bay, a town near where the mine would be located, have signed a petition opposing the mine. Medical staff at Marquette General Hospital passed a resolution opposing the mine last week. The overwhelming majority of citizens testifying at the DEQ hearings on the mine permit have objected to the plan.
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