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.
Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin successfully fought to keep Canada’s municipal garbage out of Michigan landfills; now they’re targeting shipments of private garbage from Canada as well.
AP reports:
Stabenow’s bill would change the financial incentives that make it cheaper for Canadian companies to dump their waste in Michigan.
The Stop Canadian Trash Act would require Canadian companies that ship waste to the U.S. to pay a $500 user fee at the border to provide Homeland Security personnel the resources they need to inspect every trash truck.
The fee would be assessed on trucks carrying foreign trash handled or collected by any means from residential, commercial and industrial sources.
Currently, international trash trucks generally pay $5 to haul waste into the United States, and only 1 percent are randomly screened by U.S Customs and Border Protection.
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