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.
Staff in the Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment are waiting to find out whether the Snyder administration will fill the retirement-related vacancies in the section in charge of oversight for environmental cleanup.
Six out of 27 people in the Remediation Division’s Compliance and Enforcement program — including three of the four managers — opted to take the state’s early retirement offer and quit at the end of the year.
The staffing shortfall in this section is expected to further slow state environmental enforcement which has already been hobbled by drastic budget cuts.
This week Governor Snyder signed an executive order splitting the recently-created Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment into two departments, a move he said would help each better focus on its core mission.
During his campaign Snyder emphasized that natural resource protection would be key to the state’s economic recovery.
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