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.
Patty Birkholz of Saugatuck Township, until recently the most prominent Republican environmental advocate in the legislature, has been tapped by Governor Snyder to direct the state Office of the Great Lakes.
“Senator Birkholz is a tireless advocate for environmental causes,” Gov. Snyder said. “Throughout her entire career she has worked to protect the Great Lakes and all of Michigan’s water resources, and I have no doubt she will continue the fight to conserve the natural resources that make this state great.”
During her three terms in the state house and two in the state senate Birkholz focused on water issues including the adoption of the Great Lakes Water Compact and the passage of state regulations for water withdrawal.
As chair of the Senate Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Committee in 2009 Birkholz worked with environmental and business groups to create a bill that allowed Michigan to retain its wetland permitting program after Gov. Granholm proposed turning the program over to the federal government and appropriations committees in the legislature zeroed its budget.
The Office of the Great Lakes provides the state government and the public with information about the Great Lakes and represents Michigan in discussions with regional organization including the Great Lakes Commission, International Joint Commission, Council of Great Lakes Governors and the Binational Executive Committee.
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