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 Michigan congressional delegation, Republican and Democrat alike, are making a plea for the support of their colleagues from other states to pass a bill that would close down the locks and canals that separate Lake Michigan from the Mississippi River to prevent the Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes. The Detroit News reports:
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Lansing, and Rep. Dave Camp, R-Midland, will today lead a group of at least 16 senators and representatives in a news conference calling for passage of the bill they co-authored. They seek an immediate closure of Chicago-area locks in a bid to keep the invasive carp out of Lake Michigan.
Environmental experts said if the fish were to successfully spawn in Lake Michigan, their offspring could quickly take over the Great Lakes ecosystem, causing irreparable harm to multi-billion dollar sport and commercial fishing industries and posing a hazard to boaters…
Besides Stabenow and Camp, Michigan House Republicans Candice Miller, Mike Rogers, Fred Upton and Thad McCotter and Democrats Dale Kildee and Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick will be joined by Democrats from Minnesota and New York pushing for passage of the CARP ACT, which stands for Close All Routes and Prevent Asian Carp Today.
This battle has been going on for months now. The Supreme Court has rejected attempts to get them involved to issue an injunction closing the locks down. The Obama administration has stopped short of taking such action in their plans to prevent the carp from reaching the Great Lakes. Congressional legislation is the only option left.
What will be very interesting is if it passes and President Obama decides to veto it. Lawmakers from his home state of Illinois are against such a closure because of the economic costs of shutting down the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal, through which a great deal of freight is transported.
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