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.
In a report released for World Water Day the United Nations stated more than 2.5 billion people lack sanitation, and that this situation is endangering the world’s water resources, the Inter Press News Service reports.
The Great Lakes contain around one fifth of the world’s fresh surface water.
In a statement released Thursday U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that clean water has become scarce and will become even scarcer with the onset of climate change.
Already, he said, “More people die from unsafe water than all forms of violence, including war.”
Anders Berntell of the Stockholm International Water Institute told IPS:
“It is a global scandal that we see a total increase in the numbers of persons without improved sanitation.”
“This year, when we focus on the challenges of water quality in many of our discussions, the obvious links between the lack of proper sanitation facilities, and the resulting practice of open defecation, leading to deteriorating water quality, needs to be highlighted even more,” he added.
He appealed to leaders in society, from the local village to the international level, to resume their responsibility, and lead the way towards more investments and changed behaviour.
Michigan’s water is also threatened by poor sanitation. A recent investigation by the Detroit Free Press found that community sewer systems in Michigan had dumped 80 billion gallons of raw and partially treated human waste into waterways over the last two years.
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