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.
The EPA has put an indefinite hold on an application to re-open the waste injection wells in Romulus that were the subject of one of the bribes taken by former Detroit City Council Chairperson Monica Conyers. The application was made by Jim Papas, the Detroit businessman who, according to former Conyers aide Sam Riddle, paid him $20,000 — half of which went to Conyers — to help him get approval for the project. Conyers’ husband, U.S. Congressman John Conyers, sent a letter to the EPA after that money was given to his wife changing his position on the wells and advocating that the application be granted.
Now the EPA is putting an indefinite hold on the project. And that decision may cause more financial problems for the city of Detroit:
The wells are owned by a company formed by the Detroit police and fire pension fund, which has sunk more than $40 million into the project. The pension fund hoped Papas would get permission to reopen the wells and pay the fund back at least $10 million.
The wells actually did re-open in late 2005 for several months before leaks were found by inspectors and a subsequent investigation found inconsistencies in the paperwork.
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