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.
LANSING — In testimony before the House Great Lakes and Environment Committee, Republican House Minority Leader Kevin Elsenheimer told fellow lawmakers that Asian carp are a threat to the great lakes.
“We also have to recognize that the Asian Carp issue is perhaps the largest threat to the great lakes, and something that is not talked about all that often to the inland lakes and the inland waterways in Michigan that we have seen really in a generation or more,” Elsenheimer said.
He said the introduction of the invasive species would “decimate” the state’s food supply and fisheries economy.
He then asked for a “call to action” regarding the threat.
The fish has been moving up the Mississippi River, and was recently found at a channel in Chicago that dumps into Lake Michigan. Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Lt. Gov. John Cherry issued a letter to Attorney General Mike Cox last week calling on him to seek legal action to prevent the fish from invading the great lakes. Cox announced he would do so.
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