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.
Philip Verleger, president of an oil and economics consulting company and a professor at the University of Calgary, has an op-ed piece in the Minneapolis StarTribune arguing that the Keystone XL pipeline will raise gas prices in the Midwest.
The Canadian oil industry, with the strong backing of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government, wants to build a pipeline to move crude oil from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico.
The firms involved have asked the U.S. State Department to approve this project, even as they’ve told Canadian government officials how the pipeline can be used to add at least $4 billion to the U.S. fuel bill.
U.S. farmers, who spent $12.4 billion on fuel in 2009, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, could see expenses rise to $15 billion or higher in 2012 or 2013 if the pipeline goes through.
Verleger argues that these costs will increase because the Keystone pipeline will ship tar sands crude from Canada that would previously have been brought to Midwest refineries down to the Gulf Coast instead.
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