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.
In an effort to increase access to healthy and affordable food the state is offering to lease vacant land to gardeners for $50 per year.
The new program was announced in the written version of Governor Jennifer Granholm’s State of the State message.
In his Sunday column in the Traverse City Record Eagle George Weeks compares Granholm’s moves to promote gardening with those of former Detroit mayor and Governor Hazen Pingree (a Republican) who became nationally known for “Pinigree’s Potato Patches, ” a program that lent out Detroit’s vacant lots for farming during the lean years of the 1890’s.
Weeks writes:
So far, Granholm’s program is a low-key undertaking. But steam might build with the urban garden idea that is gaining some traction in Detroit, where vacant lots are estimated to account for about 40 square miles.
Furthermore, first lady Michelle Obama is setting an example by putting a 1,100-square-foot plot with 52 varieties of fruits and vegetables on the south lawn of the White House.
Details of the “Garden for Growth” program are available from the state Department of Energy Labor & Economic Growth.
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