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.
Michigan State University has been ordered to pay $27,000 in fines by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment.
The MSU student newspaper, the State News, reports the fines stem from two incidents revolving around the university’s coal burning power plant.
The violations, which occurred in spring 2008, involve improper blending of coal that produced excess sulfur dioxide emissions and burning wet coal that produced excess nitrogen oxide emissions.
The money will go to the general fund, and MSU says it has since addressed the problems.
Specifically, the university says it built a structure to protect coal from the elements, thus reducing the risk of burning wet coal. In relation to the sulfur dioxide issue, MSU says it was a bad batch of coal from a supplier it has since ceased doing business with.
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