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.
Two members of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community were arrested at the site of Kennecott’s proposed Upper Peninsula nickel mine this morning.
For the last month KBIC tribal members and others have occupied an area of state land leased to Kennecott in hopes of blocking development of the mine which they say will harm the Lake Superior watershed and destroy a rocky outcropping, Eagle Rock, which is used in Native American ceremonies.
Trooper Donna Beauchaine of the State Police post in Negaunee confirmed that two arrests took place at Eagle Rock this morning. She said that charges have not yet been announced.
Cynthia Pryor of the Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve, said that she spoke to demonstrators at Eagle Rock via satellite phone as the police arrived this morning.
Pryor said that the two arrested where tribal members Chris Choasa and Charlotte Loonsfoot.
A spokesman for the Marquette County Sheriff’s Dept. confirmed that Choasa is being held in the Marquette County jail.
Pryor said that at about 8:30am a caravan of around 20 squad cars and other police vehicles drove to the site of the remote encampment on the Yellow Dog Plains, ordered those camped there to leave, and arrested the two tribal members who did not.
The Marquette Sheriff’s Dept. has not responded to requests for more information about the arrests.
The encampment at Eagle Rock began in April shortly after Cynthia Pryor’s arrest there on trespassing charges. Pryor maintains that the lease between the state and Kennecott is not valid because Kennecott has not received all of the needed permits to begin work at the site. Pryor has pleaded not guilty to the trespassing charge and will face a jury trial on June 15.
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