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.
U.S. Rep. John Conyers of Detroit has responded to questions about why he changed his position on a controversial hazardous waste injection well that is operated by a man who made payments to his wife, Monica Conyers, who resigned from the Detroit City Council this week after entering a guilty plea on conspiracy to commit bribery charges on Friday.
The Detroit pension board was invested in the well and Conyers said that he asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider approving the injection well out of “representational duties to his constituents.”
The Detroit Free Press reports that in 2003, Conyers opposed permits for a hazardous waste injection well in Romulus, but changed his position in 2007 and asked the EPA to allow the well to go forward.
According to the Free Press, Monica Conyers aide, Sam Riddle, stated that John Conyers’ 2007 letter to the EPA came after the operator of the injection well — Dimitrios “Jim” Papas — indirectly gave Monica Conyers $10,000, contributed to her campaign, and co-hosted a campaign event which raised $12,250.
A statement released by Conyers’ office today stated:
I also refer to the statement of the United States Attorney in which he said ‘I also want to make it equally clear that the evidence offered no suggestion that United States Representative John Conyers, Ms.Conyers’ husband, had any knowledge or role in Ms. Conyers’ illegal conduct, nor did the Congressman attempt to influence this investigation in any way.’”
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