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 governor of Illinois, Pat Quinn, has a plan to reduce the number of Asian carp in rivers and streams in that state: Sell them to China as food. Apparently, Asian carp are a delicacy in China and a Chinese meat processing company was anxious to get their hands on as many of them as they could. AP reports:
Gov. Pat Quinn announced an agreement Tuesday between a Chinese meat processing plant and an Illinois fish company that is expected to pull 30 million pounds of Asian carp from Illinois rivers by the end of next year. Illinois is investing $2 million in capital funds so Big River Fish in Pearl can expand its facilities and increase production capacity.
“If you can’t beat ‘em, you eat ‘em,” Quinn said. “That’s what the battle is all about — we have too many Asian carp in the Illinois River and the Mississippi River. We don’t want the Asian carp to get into the Great Lakes.”
Fishing, even for 30 million pounds of them, will not eliminate the Asian carp. But it should dramatically reduce their numbers, which should make the fish at least marginally less likely to spread to other waterways. Carp en papillote, anyone?
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