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.
By spilling 23 billion gallons of raw and partially treated sewage into surface waters during 2007, the city of Detroit has won top honors in the Crappie Awards.
Devised by blogger and Muskegon Chronicle environmental writer Jeff Alexander as a fun way to recognize the communities that do the most to foul the waters of the Great Lakes state with human waste, the award goes to the town that has the largest volume of sanitary sewer overflows — caused by broken pipes or equipment malfunctions — and the community that has the largest volume of combined sewer overflows — typically the result of heavy rains that overwhelm systems that combine storm drains and sewers.
Muskegon County took the top prize in the sanitary sewer overflow category, dumping 25 million gallons of raw sewage into Muskegon Lake last March after a sewer main break.
Detroit was the winner in the combined sewer overflows category.
The city of Grand Rapids was recognized for significant improvement in keeping crap out of waterways. According to Alexander’s read of the data from the Department of Environmental Quality, Grand Rapids released a mere 1.6 million gallons of untreated sewage into the Grand River in 2007, a huge improvement from historic annual releases in the hundreds of millions of gallons.
You can learn more about Michigan’s leaking sewers here, and check the full list of Crappie Award winners here.
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