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.
The Michigan Department of Agriculture is telling Michigan residents who are developing home-grown seafood programs to slow down.
WKAR radio reports the department is not necessarily opposed to aquaculture, it just wants the industry to grow slowly. The radio station reports that there are 100 members in the newly christened Michigan Aquaculture Association.
But that delay is frustrating to some who see the industry poised to explode as it has in Ohio, where in the past 12 years the number of registered fish farms went from 35 to 270.
“Without having the capacity, without having the capability, without having a guaranteed market, we’d be criticized for making large investment an industry that’s in the start up phase,” [Secretary of Agriculture Keith Creagh] says.
Meanwhile, one shrimp farmer based in Meridian Township, just east of Lansing, says he is seriously considering a move to Ohio. There, he says, the state will assist him in pushing his product. Russ Allen runs the shrimpery, which he says is ready to break open the Michigan market, but can’t get capital to make it happen.
“Here in the United States, we don’t have any programs that are really development-oriented, to develop new businesses and new technologies, with long-term low interest loans or grant programs–that kind of thing that it takes to get it started,” he says.
So why is Allen convinced the market will open? He points to the local food movement, a declining fisheries industry worldwide and the easy access to high protein foods to feed the shrimp in Michigan — soybeans.
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