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 Detroit Free Press has an important report on the long-term effects of the oil spill on the ecosystems of Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River after a ruptured pipe dumped a million gallons of oil into them. While many individual animals have been rescued, the damage to the ecosystem as a whole will take years to overcome.
The oil spill that dumped up to a million gallons of crude into the Kalamazoo River is expected to cause long-term damage to at least a 30-mile stretch of once pristine marshes along the river, destroying habitat for resident geese, ducks, frogs, herons, muskrats and swans for possibly years to come…
Some creatures are lucky, such as a 10-inch turtle rescued Friday whose body was layered in oil as thick as tar, except for two tiny holes for its nose and two eye slits. But fish and birds have fled, and the insects, mussels and frogs that are the base of the food chain for them have died, suffocated by the oil.
When the fish and birds return, they may have nothing to eat.
The spill’s damage is a double whammy for migrating birds, such as the endangered lesser scaup, which stops in the area in the fall on its way to winter grounds in the Gulf of Mexico, hit by the BP oil spill.
Enbridge has pledged to pay the full cost of the cleanup for the spill, but money cannot undo much of the damage that has been done.
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