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 National Transportation Safety Board has announced its inspection team investigating the oil pipeline rupture in Calhoun county have returned to Washington D.C.
While the move does not mean the investigation is over, it does indicate that investigators at this point have accomplished everything it needed to while in Michigan.
A report with final findings is not expected to be released for another 18 months.
The investigators left the state before the ruptured line could be excavated and removed from the spill site. Officials from the Environmental Protection Agency and Enbridge Energy, which owns the pipeline, say the ruptured line, while uncovered, has been difficult to remove. They say the pipe is located in a very “swampy” area, and the hole being dug to remove 140 feet of pipe line continues to fill up with water. Before EPA and Enbridge can move forward on pipe removal, they will have to develop a plan to remove the water and oil from the hole before removing the line.
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