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.
After decades of progress against lampreys — eel-like animals that kill fish by sucking the blood out of them — in the Great Lakes, regulators say budget cuts this year could facilitate a comeback for the invasive species.
AP reports:
Commission spokesman Marc Gaden says lamprey numbers have fallen about 90 percent through measures such as trapping, sterilization and treating streams where they spawn with a chemical that kills their larvae.
Gaden says some in Congress have proposed cutting the program by 20 percent this year, while the Obama administration’s budget for 2012 calls for a 15 percent cut. He says if that happens, lamprey numbers will jump.
The election of Barack Obama as president in 2008 was viewed as a positive sign for the Great Lakes given his connection to the state of Illinois, and as candidate he promised to increase resources for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. But that funding is now being chipped away at due to budget problems.
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