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 editorial board of the Flint Journal is asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to assume liability for the long term pollution risk at industrial sites that have become orphaned brownfields as a consequence of the GM bankruptcy reorganization.
The Journal says EPA should make Buick City in Flint a “testbed for how it handles old, orphaned brownfields,” and urges the agency to act by late October so that the city might have a chance of landing a transportation project proposed for the site by an as-yet unnamed developer.
The last administration in Washington turned its back on the industrial heartland that built the machines that erected this great nation. In wartime, we were known as the arsenal of democracy.
The new administration dissolved the old GM as a condition of survival for a new GM.
The least the nation can do is help Flint get back on its feet with an assurance that this land will be cleaned, should the need arise.
We have a developer waiting in the wings, but not for much longer. A solution, a federal promise, is needed, and quickly.
Eight weeks to Flint’s destiny.
The countdown has begun.
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