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.
A Canadian trucker was fined $50,000 this week for trying to take about four thousand pounds of live Asian carp into Canada via the Ambassador Bridge.
The Windsor Star reports that this is the second time trucker Feng Yang has been convicted of violating the federal Fisheries Act by importing invasive Asian carp.
Yang is what’s known as a live-hauler, a trucker who drives a semi outfitted with fish tanks. His truck on the day in question had 11 tanks. In with the Asian carp species were some bass, said federal prosecutor Ed Posliff.
The fish Yang was transporting were likely headed for Asian markets in the Toronto area. There, they are a popular ethnic delicacy.
“It’s my understanding that some ethnic markets prefer their fish to be bought live,” said [Kevin Reid, a biologist with the Ontario Commercial Fisheries' Association]. Often, they are purchased in twos as part of a ritual. “It’s a tradition. You buy one, kill it and set the other one free.”
Asian carp are fast growing fish that experts warn could disrupt the fisheries of the Great Lakes by eating all available food.
State and federal environmental officials in the U.S. have worked to prevent the migration of the fish in the Great Lakes by installing electrical barriers in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal that connects the Mississippi River basin, where the fish are well established, to the Great Lakes.
Evidence the Asian carp have begun to reach Lake Michigan has triggered electro-fishing and poisoning of Chicago area waterways and lawsuits from Great Lakes states that want the Chicago locks closed.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is in the process of studying potential routes for Asian carp migration into the Lakes.
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