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The Michigan Messenger going forward

By Staff Report | 11.16.11

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 [...]

Colorado-based abstinence program provided false and misleading information to Michigan students

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.16.11

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.

Class action lawsuit filed against MERS over unpaid taxes

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.15.11

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.

Schuette fights important mercury regulations

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By Eartha Jane Melzer | 11.14.11

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.

Violent attack shocks mine opponents

By Eartha Jane Melzer | 05.08.08 | 12:20 pm

Man beaten near site of planned sulfide mine

The 60-year old husband of a prominent Upper Peninsula anti-mining activist was reportedly knocked unconscious and left outside in the freezing rain by three men who first asked if he was a mine opponent.

Cynthia Pryor, executive director of Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve, told Michigan Messenger that over the weekend her husband Bob was attacked at their remote Champion township home, which is six miles from Kennecott Eagle Mineral Company’s planned nickel sulfide mine.

Cynthia Pryor is a well-known opponent of the planned mine. At the time of the alleged attack on her husband, she was out of town for activities related to appeals of permits issued to Kennecott by the Department of Environmental Quality. Last month, she traveled to London where she joined mining activists from around the world in a protest at the shareholders meeting of Rio Tinto, Kennecott’s parent corporation.

Continued -“I am outraged,” Cynthia said, “What are the stakes in this project that would lead to such violence against a citizen of this state — unprovoked and at their home? The level of watchfulness of those of us living in the remote areas of the county has definitely ramped up.”

“[Kennecott has] so many local people riled up over jobs and money

Comments

  • beaware

    violence in the U.P. If the Activists are treated this way, what will the effect be on those average citizens who waver at this type of operation coming into their backyards? Questions I have, who were the thugs sent by? the mine co.? the chinese/aussies? or is it just some “good old boys” trying to do “the right thing”, regardless of the consequences? what tears me up, is the right thing is NOT letting this mine open. The jobs brought to the U.P. will not solve the over-all problems plaguing the U.P., or the rest of the state. And the ecological effects, in the long run, should scare the living shit out of all of us! One disaster, God Forbid, and Lake Superior, Lake Michigan and probably Lake Huron are deader than Erie was when I was a kid. Thank You E. and Mich. Messenger.

  • beaware

    violence in the U.P. If the Activists are treated this way, what will the effect be on those average citizens who waver at this type of operation coming into their backyards? Questions I have, who were the thugs sent by? the mine co.? the chinese/aussies? or is it just some “good old boys” trying to do “the right thing”, regardless of the consequences? what tears me up, is the right thing is NOT letting this mine open. The jobs brought to the U.P. will not solve the over-all problems plaguing the U.P., or the rest of the state. And the ecological effects, in the long run, should scare the living shit out of all of us! One disaster, God Forbid, and Lake Superior, Lake Michigan and probably Lake Huron are deader than Erie was when I was a kid. Thank You E. and Mich. Messenger.

  • LoRayne Apo-Joynt

    Does not seem at all normal I have family in the Big Bay area; this seems completely uncharacteristic of the locals.  There is a split between people who want jobs and people who are advocates for the area's environmental stability, but their strong sentiments don't typically well up into violence like this.

    Beginning to wonder if there are more people being brought in from outside the area already; most of the folks in Big Bay are surely familiar with the Pryors.

    And now I'm worried that if I take my family up the Yellowdog Plains to pick berries and take photos as we do every year, not far from where the Pryors live, whether we'll be hassled. Not at all good.

  • LoRayne Apo-Joynt

    Does not seem at all normal I have family in the Big Bay area; this seems completely uncharacteristic of the locals.  There is a split between people who want jobs and people who are advocates for the area’s environmental stability, but their strong sentiments don’t typically well up into violence like this.

    Beginning to wonder if there are more people being brought in from outside the area already; most of the folks in Big Bay are surely familiar with the Pryors.

    And now I’m worried that if I take my family up the Yellowdog Plains to pick berries and take photos as we do every year, not far from where the Pryors live, whether we’ll be hassled. Not at all good.

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