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.
James Blanchard, the Democratic governor of Michigan from 1983-1991 and U.S. ambassador to Canada under President Clinton has served on the board of directors for Enbridge since 1999.
Yesterday current governor Jennifer Granholm criticized Enbridge for failing to adequately respond to the oil pipeline rupture that spilled more than a million gallons of crude oil in Marshall this week.
Granholm said that Enbridge has not supplied the oil containment booms that it promised. Delays by the company have added to the states mounting environmental crisis, she said, and Enbridge has downplayed the amount of oil spilled and exaggerated the scope of the company’s response.
Enbridge has been criticized for its environmental record which has involved at least 12 spills in Michigan over the last decade.
A call seeking comment on the Michigan oil spill was not immediately returned by Blanchard.
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