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.
Residents in the city of Flint have discovered a use for the abandoned lots in their neighborhoods — community gardens. The problem, according to a story in the Flint Journal, is that the city has no zoning rules or ordinances to permit the development of agricultural initiatives within the city limits.
But that might change, as the city is now looking at amending the zoning ordinances to allow for urban farming. The new rules would make it easier to put up a greenhouse, which will allow for off season growing, and keeping farm animals like chickens, goats and sheep in the city limits.
From the Flint Journal:
The Land Bank has hired an urban garden coordinator, while the urban agriculture collaborative is hosting public meetings to gather input from residents on what they’d like to see change — or not change — to support or regulate urban farming.
All that information will be presented to the Planning Commission to begin the process of drafting proposed ordinance changes. Public hearings will then be held in August or September before the commission makes its formal recommendations to the City Council for a final decision.
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