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 Lansing State Journal has an interesting report this morning about how the Michigan Department of Transportation is reusing the concrete materials from a stretch of I-96 repairs. MDOT is currently replacing an entire six mile stretch of the highway on Lansing’s west side, which means the workers are literally ripping up the roadway all the way down to the dirt and building the road back up.
To assist in that endeavor, MDOT is taking the old road concrete, crushing it into a coarse sand-like material, mixing it with concrete and water and using it as the base point for the new highway section.
“Materials are the biggest cost of a project,” [Assistant Project Manager for MDOT Robb] Welch said. “Anytime you can reuse materials, it just makes sense.”
The project is costing $40 million, and is funded through the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The department is also working on another section of I-96 on Lansing’s east side. This stretch is also six miles in length and funded by ARRA cash.
A spokesperson for MDOT says the west side construction could create a highway that will last 40 or 50 years, with regular upkeep.
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