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.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm has issued an executive order directing the Department of Environmental Quality to ensure that poor and minority communities are not unequally burdened by pollution.
The order, quietly issued just before Thanksgiving, follows a three-year campaign by a coalition of state environmental groups who have argued that Michigan, home to heavily segregated Detroit and dependent on industry for jobs, is especially vulnerable to environmental racism.
The Granholm administration has been criticized for insensitivity to environmental racism. Last month the National Park Service blocked a state-backed plan that would have transferred a public beach in poor and mostly black Benton Harbor to developers to be used as a golf course.
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