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 Michigan Public Service Commission announced this week that it will investigate whether DTE Energy has properly maintained its distribution system in Detroit.
High winds last week resulted in around 750 downed power lines in the city and these lines are thought to have sparked fires that burned dozens of homes and overwhelmed the Detroit Fire Dept.
The MPSC plans to examine how DTE has responded to recent windstorms, whether the company is prepared to respond to consumer reports of outages, and whether it has sufficiently responded to reports of downed lines in a timely manner.
It has scheduled a Sept. 29th public hearing in Detroit to take testimony from city residents.
The Detroit News reports that the MPSC announcement came on the same day that the Detroit City Council announced plans for a Sept. 29 meeting about recent fires with DTE Energy and Fire Dept. officials.
“I’m not suggesting it as a standpoint of pointing fingers or laying blame, but this is a public issue,” Councilman Kenneth Cockrel Jr. said. “On a certain level this is being looked at as a failure of institutions. (It’s) a failure of the city (and) a failure of DTE to protect the constituents both of those institutions serve. It’s almost like on a certain level like a local miniature equivalent of the BP oil spill.”
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