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.
Fifteen percent of the monitored beaches in Michigan were closed or had health advisories due to E. coli bacteria from fecal contamination, Tina Lam at the Detroit Free Press reports, and since only 40 percent portion of the states beaches are even tested for E. coli, it’s unknown how much contamination exists at some of the state’s most popular beaches.
This information comes from the annual beach report by the Natural Resources Defense Council. This years report found that beaches in the Great Lakes were dirty twice as often as beaches in other parts of the country.
Sewage overflows are a major source of E. coli contamination at beaches, the report states, and this problem is likely to get worse as climate change leads to more intense rains.
Information about current Michigan beach closings is available here.
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