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.
Because of changes ordered by outgoing Gov. Jennifer Granholm, the head of the state’s primary environmental agency, now known as the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment, will be appointed directly by the governor rather than by a state commission. Howard Meyerson says this decision will tell a great deal about Rick Snyder:
Michigan Gov.-elect Rick Snyder has no small choice ahead in deciding who to install as the new director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment. That selection will say much about the future of Michigan’s natural resources and environment…
Will Snyder choose a figurehead? I suspect he has more substance than that. His green rhetoric suggests sincerity.
I would hope that person would be steeped in conservation work and places a high value on environmental protection. Both are important to the state.
Snyder presented himself as a pro-environment Republican in the tradition of revered former Gov. William Milliken. This first decision will go a long way toward telling whether he was telling the truth. With a DNRE already stressed after years of steep budget cuts, giving the agency a weak leader would make things considerably worse.
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