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.
Lt. Gov. John Cherry’s office announced on Thursday that 17 rural water and wastewater projects in the state of Michigan had been approved for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. A press release noted:
According to Frank J. Tuma, acting state director of the Michigan Office of Rural Development, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), these 17 projects represent the first round of USDA-administered Recovery Act funding for rural water and wastewater infrastructure, and he expects the state will receive additional funding for shovel-ready water projects in the coming months.
“Adequate water infrastructure is vital to the economy of rural Michigan,” said Tuma. “With these dollars, we will be able to provide a key element in the continued economic health of our rural communities.”
Hopefully some of those funds will go to address the problem of combined sewer systems throughout the state, which release millions of gallons of untreated sewage into Michigan’s rivers and streams every year.
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