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.
With the legislature having failed to pass legislation to prevent the Department of Natural Resources from enforcing a ban on wild pig hunting, the DNR is set to make that ban functional July 8.
And the state’s $600 million pork industry supports the move, reports the Saginaw News. Those officials say the pigs carry hundreds of diseases which domestic swine are not immune to. Should those wild swine contact domestic stocks, pork industry officials say it would decimate the pork industry, including the 6,000 Michigan jobs associated with rearing swine.
Wild swine — either domestic pigs improperly released into the wild or imported European wild swine released for sporting hunts of boars — have become a growing issue in Michigan. The Granholm administration declared feral swine an invasive species, clearing the way for hunters and others to kill them. But the Snyder administration rolled that policy back some earlier this year when lawmakers expressed concern. However, the state legislature, which is controlled by Republicans, was unable to muster the votes to stop the DNR from eliminating the sporting programs and pursuing the feral swine elimination program.
Boosting the claim of disease threat, the state has reported an outbreak of pseudo-rabies in wild pigs found in Saginaw county.
The Saginaw News says the state has reported 488 feral swine in Bay, Saginaw and Midland counties since 2006.
Earlier this month, the Bay City Times reported that federal cash was being made available to land owners and farmers in the battle against feral swine. That money was supposed to be targeted for waterway cleanups under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
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