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.
Earlier this month the city of Chicago instituted the first ever city-wide tax on bottled water and Toronto mayor, David Miller, has expressed support for adopting a similar measure.
Chicago expects to collect 10.5 million dollars from the new five cent per bottle tax in 2008. Supporters of the measure hope it will educate people about the environmental costs of bottled water — few of the plastic bottles are recycled and the transportation of bottled water is energy intensive.
City governments in San Francisco, Boston and New York have stopped purchasing bottled water in response to citizen concerns about its finanical and environmental costs.
According to the Polaris Institute, making bottles to meet Americans’ demand for bottled water required the equivalent of more than 17 million barrels of oil last year – enough fuel for more than 1 million U.S. cars for a year – and generated more than 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide.
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