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.
In a flurry of legislative activity late last week the Senate passed a bill with provisions that would ban the Dept. of Environmental Quality from considering whether proposed power plants are necessary and prudent. This measure, if passed through the House might have squashed a February executive order from Gov. Granholm that directed DEQ to include these factors when considering permit applications.
The legislation did not clear the House on Friday, and was sent to a conference committee, but for a while late in the day it looked like lawmakers from the House and Senate would meet at 3:55 Saturday morning to hammer out a compromise. Environmental groups launched an e-mail and phone campaign, urging legislators not to relax state regulations to benefit coal plant developers.
The House ended up adjourning before any further action was taken.
Cyndi Roper, Michigan director for Clean Water Action, was among those who followed the end-of-session moves in detail.
Roper said via e-mail that the pro-coal bill was tabled due to push back from Representatives Sarah Roberts (D-St. Clair Shores), Rebekah Warren(D-Ann Arbor), Dan Scripps (D-Leland), Rashida Tlaib(D-Detroit), Ellen Cogen Lipton (D-Huntington Woods), Lisa Brown (D-West Bloomfield) and a few others.
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