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.
Attorneys for all of the Great Lakes states other than Indiana and Illinois participated in oral argument in federal court on Monday in a case seeking to force the hand of the federal government to close the locks that separate the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal from Lake Michigan.
The states argue that the risk of allowing the Asian carp to infest the great lakes promises such economic and environmental destruction that it is worth the cost of closing the locks, while the city of Chicago and many businesses argue that the risk is low and the economic cost of closing the locks too high.
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