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.
As we reported yesterday, environmental officials began poisoning the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal last night in an attempt to prevent Asian carp from reaching Lake Michigan, where experts say they would all but destroy the native ecosystem and force many other species to go extinct. But authorities report that they found no Asian carp in the channel at all during preparations for that poisoning:
The operation to poison thousands of fish in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is expected to start at dusk, but electrofishing efforts in the canal earlier today failed to find any Asian carp, officials said.
Using huge nets and electrofishing equipment, crews moved through the canal this morning on boats, shocking fish to bring them to the surface. The idea was to rescue any desirable game fish and relocate them before 2,200 gallons of the fish poison rotenone are poured into the canal. The electrofishing didn’t net any Asian carp, and 95% of the fish that were stunned were “rough” fish, said Chris McCloud, spokesman for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
It will certainly be interesting to see if they find any Asian carp after the poisoning of the water. If not, they can expect some criticism for overreacting, though environmentalists will undoubtedly argue that given the information available it was best to err on the side of safety and overreact rather than underreact to such a massive threat to the world’s largest freshwater ecosystem.
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