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 speech at the Detroit Regional Chamber today Gov. Jennifer Granholm said that a new bridge over the Detroit River would create tens of thousands of permanent jobs and improve tourism and international trade between the U.S. and Canada, and she urged state legislators to approve funding for bridge construction by June 1, the Detroit News
reports.
The Detroit Regional International Crossing would be located around two miles south of the Ambassador Bridge, which is the busiest international crossing between the U.S. and Canada.
The DRIC has met stiff opposition from some legislators, especially Sen. Alan Cropsey, R-DeWitt, who has described the bridge as a “boondoggle” for tax payers, citing the dwindling amount of commercial and private traffic between Ontario and southeastern Michigan.
Cropsey has voiced his support for a privately funded span proposed by Manuel “Matty” Moroun, owner of the Ambassador Bridge, who wants to twin the 80-year-old span.
But Moroun is facing tough resistance to his plans by the Canadian government and is tied up in myriad lawsuits involving the U.S. and Canadian governments, city of Detroit and the Michigan Department of Transportation.
Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson told the News that the new bridge is needed to protect jobs in the area.
Patterson said the real fear was that without the DRIC, commercial traffic might shift to the crossing in Buffalo, N.Y.
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