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.
Michigan officials have been quick to file lawsuits to stop invasive carp from reaching Lake Michigan so they should be ready to take action to get to the bottom of this week’s Enbridge oil spill, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley told reporters yesterday.
The Chicago Tribune reports that Daley said the million gallon oil spill that has moved down the Kalamazoo River toward Lake Michigan potentially threatens Chicago’s source of drinking water.
“Oil is worse than carp,” Daley said.
“Michigan better do something about the investigation, the criminal and civil investigation. Who’s paying for it, and who had the oil spill in the Kalamazoo River, because it’s flowing into Lake Michigan,” Daley said at a news conference to announce the 2011 budget for the City Colleges of Chicago, where he began talking about the spill unprompted by reporters.
Daley denied that his angry response to news of the Michigan spill was prompted by the series of federal lawsuits filed by Michigan to try to force Chicago to close shipping locks in the Calumet-Sag Channel and the Chicago River to stop the invasive Asian carp from getting to the lake.
“It doesn’t matter where (the oil) comes from,” he said. “The Great Lakes is a source of drinking water for all of us here in the Midwest and in Canada. It is very important to protect.”
The Michigan Attorney General’s office was not immediately available to discuss potential legal action related to the spill.
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