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 Lone Tree Council, one of the state’s leading environmental organizations, has put up a website devoted solely to the issue of the EPA’s takeover of negotiations with and cleanup of Dow Chemical’s dioxin pollution in the Saginaw and Tittabawassee river basins and the Saginaw Bay. They have dubbed the issue the Clean Watershed Campaign.
As we’ve reported previously, the EPA took over negotiations with Dow from the state of Michigan over dioxin cleanup. Those negotiations are now completed and an announcement of the resulting plans is expected to be released soon.
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