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.
The U.S. Supreme Court delayed taking action on a request by all of the Great Lakes states except Illinois to reconsider an 80 year old ruling and shut down the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal that links the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan, action they say is necessary to prevent the Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes. Minnesota Public Radio reports:
Shipping canals near Chicago will stay open at least another week, while the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to consider a lawsuit seeking to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes.
The court, which was to hold a conference Friday on the suit, is expected to take it up in closed conference on Jan. 15.
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox filed suit shortly after Asian carp DNA was confirmed on the Lake Michigan side of an electric fish barrier designed to keep them out of the Great Lakes. The invasive carp have already moved up the Mississippi and Illinois River systems, after escaping fish farms in southern states.
This is a very unusual situation for the Supreme Court to find itself in and not exactly within their usual expertise. I imagine they are trying to get as much information as they can. In the end, I don’t expect them to rule in the matter. I expect they will say that is a political decision, not a judicial one.
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