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.
In a press conference with members of the Democratic caucus today House Minority Leader Richard E. Hammel (D-Mt. Morris Township) said that building a coal plant is one of three Democratic initiatives to develop jobs.
Building a clean coal plant will create up to 5,000 jobs and help attract new employers to the state, and an approval process was established through energy reforms championed by House Dems in 2008. However, Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm’s administration added a layer of regulation that has blocked the building of two plants.
Spokesman Jeff Winston said that coal plants proposed by Wolverine Power Cooperative in Rogers City and by the Holland Board of Public Works are “shovel ready” and could proceed if state environmental regulations were rolled back.
Environmental groups said that the plan — though vague — would lead to rate hikes and undercut economic development.
Construction jobs are temporary, the Michigan Environmental Council, League of Conservation Voters, Sierra Club and Clean Water Action said, and with demand for energy dropping building a new coal plant is “abysmally bad public policy.”
Republican Attorney General Bill Schuette recently announced that he would defend the Graholm executive order that requires regulators to consider whether proposed coal plants are needed.
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