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.
It seems like the bad news on this issue is coming in faster and faster every week. Now the Detroit Free Press reports that new tests have found DNA for Asian carp right next to Lake Michigan in the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal.
The latest results—two samples that showed carp DNA—were at the Wilmette Pumping Station north of downtown Chicago. The pumping station is next to Lake Michigan, and pumps water from it into the Chicago River. Before that, carp DNA was found near a lock about six miles from the lake. The latest results come from sampling in October.
The Supreme Court is expected to take up the issue at their weekly conference on Friday in response to a request from Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox for an injunction closing the locks that separate Lake Michigan from the Chicago canal and the Mississippi River.
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