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.
The Midland Daily News did a story on that Freeland Walleye Festival going on this weekend and didn’t even mention the many health warnings put out by the state telling most of the population not to eat walleye due to dioxin and PCB contamination. The article talks about how the walleye supply in those rivers has been boosted by DNR actions in the past, but no mention whatsoever of any potential dangers from contaminated fish.
Some of the commenters did mention those warnings, however, including someone who wrote:
To all who are upset about these “contaminated fish” being donated to food banks… Guess what, BEGGARS CAN’T BE CHOOSERS! And i’m sure these folks are just thankful to have walleye to eat, or anything for that matter, contaminated/sugary/steroid enhanced or not.
Yes, and those Native Americans should have just shut up and appreciated those smallpox-ridden blankets.
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