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.
A coalition of federal and state agencies will come together tonight to poison the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal in the hope of killing off any Asian carp that may have breached the electrical barrier and moved within a few miles of reaching Lake Michigan. The Detroit News reports:
Officials from the Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Coast Guard and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources will use the toxin rotenone to kill whatever carp may be in a several-mile stretch north from the barrier.
Rotenone disrupts the fish’s ability to metabolize oxygen, leading to death.
Prior to the application, wildlife officials will attempt to remove native fish from that stretch by shocking them, capturing and relocating them.
Starting tomorrow, barges with cranes on them will start scooping up the dead fish — estimated to be as much as 250,000 pounds — from the canal.
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