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.
House Democrats announced yesterday that they will seek a constitutional amendment to ban offshore drilling in the great lakes.
Michigan and the other Great Lakes states have already enacted a pact that bans drilling for natural gas and oil in the Lakes, but some say that a constructional amendment banning the practice would provide stronger protection.
Dan Scripps (D-Leland) has crafted a bill to propose the amendment and Abbie Rubley, spokeswoman for the House Democrats, said that House leader (and gubernatorial candidate) Andy Dillon has promised that that the measure will move through the House.
In order to amend the state constitution both chambers of the Legislature must approve the legislation with at least a 2/3 majority. The matter would then be put to a vote in the November election.
Canada operates hundreds of natural gas and oil wells in Lake Erie, and earlier this month Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) called for a review of the safety of those wells.
According to the House Democrats Michigan still has seven Great Lakes wells that were grandfathered in under the drilling ban.
On Monday Rep. Scripps held a press conference on his proposal along the shore of Grand Traverse Bay. He was joined by supporters Derek Bailey, tribal chairman of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, and Dave Stellingworth, president of a local Trout Unlimited Chapter.
Republican State Rep. Wayne Schmidt (R-Traverse City) did not attend, and told the Traverse City Record Eagle that Scripps’ proposal is “classic, campaign-style legislating.”
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