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.
The Grand Traverse County Planning Commission has voted 4-3 to remove references to greenhouse gases from the county’s plan for energy savings and climate action to indicate their disbelief in climate change induced by human activities.
“My issue is from a local board level I don’t want to lend any legitimacy to something I see as a fraud on this county,” Commissioner Jason Gillman told the Traverse City Record Eagle.
“I think we are being sold a bill of goods on that and I’m not drinking the global warming Kool-Aid,” Commissioner David Bieganowski, a local attorney and Green Lake township trustee told the paper.
Local officials don’t need to go to the polar ice caps to see evidence of global warming, said [Henry N. Pollack, Univeristy of Michigan professor of geophysics, emeritus], who pointed to Grand Traverse Bay as proof.
Records of ice cover have been kept since the mid-19th century that indicate the bay used to freeze over on average seven out of every ten years. In the 1990’s, it froze three times, and in the first decade of the 21st century it froze twice. The average length of the freeze has been trimmed by 35 days.
Though the majority on the commission deny that humans cause climate change, the group has recommended that the county speed up its implementation of the energy saving measures recommended in the climate action plan because reducing energy use will save the county money.
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