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.
One week after three Detroit children died in a home with an illegal electricity connection, the Senate Energy and Public Utilities Committee has scheduled a hearing on legislation that would create new penalties for people who illegally hook up gas or electric service or tamper with meters.
The proposed law states:
A person who sells or transfers or attempts to sell of transfer the product of service of an electric provider or natural gas provider to any other person, knowing or having reason to know that the product or service was obtained illegally, is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 5 years or a fine of not more than $10,000, or both.
Last Tuesday Travion Young, 5, Fantasia Young, 4, and Salena Young, 3 died in a house fire that ignited shortly after DTE Energy disconnected illegal hookups for gas and electricity.
ClickonDetroit reports that a handyman cut the padlocks the utility company had placed on the electric meter, hooked up the power to help the family, and donated an old space heater.
Michigan’s two largest power companies — Consumers Power and DTE Energy — shut off utilities to more than 181,000 customers in the first nine months of last year.
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