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.
An operator of DTE’s Fermi 2 nuclear plant in Monroe has been relieved of duty after testing positive for illegal drugs.
“A licensed operator had a confirmed positive for an illegal drug during a random fitness-for-duty test,” plant officials said in a report to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “The employee’s access to the plant has been terminated.”
The incident is said to have occurred at 1:30pm on May 5.
DTE spokesman Guy Cerullo said that for reasons of employee confidentiality details of the incident such as the worker’s duties and the drug involved will not be released. Though the company’s report to the NRC said that the employee’s access to plant has been terminated, Cerullo could not confim that the employee has been fired.
Fermi 2 is a 1,098 megawatt General Electric boiling water reactor of the same design as those at Fukushima. It has been in operation since 1988.
The plant is currently operating at 100 percent power.
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