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 a recent Right Michigan interview about his candidacy for governor, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox said that he’s concerned about the state’s regulatory environment. In much of Michigan, he said, the Department of Environmental Quality is “viewed as a hostile occupational army.”
The DEQ has been heavily criticized this year by Republicans (and some Democrats) who have introduced a bill that would end the state’s 30 year-old wetland permitting program and ask the federal government to take over the job.
Central to this proposal is the idea that the agency’s environmental permitting process is a drag for business.
But Great Lakes Blogger Dave Dempsey says that the villianization of the DEQ is based on myth. He points out that a recent survey of permit applicants conducted by the State and Local Government Program at Michigan State University found a high degree of satisfaction with the agency’s permitting process.
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