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.
Shortly after the police raid of Eagle Rock encampment yesterday, the Kennecott mining company bulldozed the site where members of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and others have been protesting a nickel sulfide mine that the company plans to develop on state land.
In a story published by Indian Country Today, Greg Peterson reports:
Atop a pole at the entrance to the camp, a lone eagle feather fluttered in the dusty wind as heavy equipment moved in. Mine officials doused the grandfather fire, uprooted the Eagle Rock Community Garden, removed two flags from atop Eagle Rock and bulldozed the camp.
Deputies blocked the dusty, remote, seasonal Triple A Road at the mine entrance but allowed the media and campers to walk the three-quarters of a mile to the former entrance to the camp that was blocked by heavy machinery as mine employees erected a metal cyclone fence. The media was not allowed to see the remains of the encampment.
The website for the group Save the Wild UP reports that a camp will be reestablished near Eagle Rock in the coming days and that new legal action is in the works to protect Eagle Rock as a sacred site.
For a month demonstrators have maintained a presence at the planned mine site in order to block development of a mine that they say will pollute the watershed with sulfuric acid and interfere with traditional uses of the land.
Kennecott told the Associated Press that it called police to clear the land in order to protect the safety of protesters and work crews.
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