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.
Congress on Thursday approved the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, a $475 million package that includes funding for the prevention of invasive species, cleaning up toxic sites and protecting and expanding wetlands throughout the Great Lakes states.
About $131 million of that money will go to wastewater and drinking water projects in the state of Michigan, particularly for separating combined sewage and storm drainage systems that overflow after big storms and spill millions of tons of untreated sewage into the state’s rivers and streams each year, eventually ending up in the Great Lakes.
An additional $146 million will to to efforts to clean up river and harbor sediments, which often carry toxic substances into the Great Lakes. The obvious example is the dioxin pollution in the sediments of the Saginaw River basin that have polluted Saginaw Bay in Lake Huron. $60 million will go to combat invasive species such as zebra and quagga mussels and Asian carp.
President Obama, who campaigned strongly on the notion of protecting the Great Lakes, has already said he will sign the bill.
Sens. Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow both voted for the initiative in the Senate, where it passed by a 72-28 vote. All the Democratic members of the Michigan Congressional delegation voted for the bill, as did Rep. Candice Miller, a Republican. The other six Republican legislators from Michigan — Rep. Vern Ehlers, Rep. Pete Hoekstra, Rep. Mike Rogers, Rep. Dave Camp, Rep. Thad McCotter and Rep. Fred Upton — voted against the bill.
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