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 League of Conservation Voters annual report ranking members of Congress on their actions on environment, public health and energy issues gives Democratic Senators Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow perfect scores and ranks the entire Democratic delegation at 93 percent or above.
The Republicans scored far lower with retiring Vern Ehlers of Grand Rapids and Candice Miller of Harrison Township at 50 percent; Fred Upton of St. Joseph and Thaddeus McCotter of Livonia at 36 percent; and Dave Camp of Midland and Mike Rogers of Brighton at 21 percent.
Pete Hoekstra of Holland, who is running for governor, received the lowest ranking of the Michigan delegation — 7 percent. The LCV called his record “abysmal”.
The group’s 2009 National Environmental Scorecard examined how the members voted on matters such as the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which aimed to reduce global warming pollution, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which designated funding for clean energy development, and the Omnibus Public Land Management Act, which designated 2 million acres of public land as wilderness. It also looked as votes on clean water funding, chemical security and other matters.
“We applaud those members of the Michigan delegation who fought in 2009 to bring clean energy jobs to the state and reduce our national dependence on foreign oil, such as Senators Levin and Stabenow and Representatives Kildee, Schauer, Peters, and Kilpatrick” said Michigan LCV’s Executive Director Lisa Wozniak. “The 2009 Scorecard clearly exposes some members of our delegation as putting corporate polluters and other special interests ahead of a cleaner, more secure energy future for Michigan.”
The League has published its scorecard each year since 1970. Earlier this year it gave President Obama a B+ for his accomplishments on clean energy and climate issues during his first year in office.
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