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.
Three Michigan State University students were arrested Thursday evening for refusing to leave the administration building offices of President Lou Anna K. Simon.
The students, members of university’s student group Greenpeace, began a sit-in at Simon’s office at 3 p.m. Thursday to protest the continued use of the T.B. Simon coal plant on campus. Protesters say the coal plant is the largest coal-fired power plant on a campus in the country. They say it is a health hazard and dangerous for the environment and want it phased out quickly and replaced with renewable energy sources.
The State News reports the three arrested students are social science and international studies sophomore Peter Rustad, linguistics and philosophy sophomore Adam Liter and zoology junior Kendra Majewski.
“Over the last two years, the University has met our demands for clean energy with indifference. So today, I am risking arrest to show how serious we are. The university must protect the health of its students, and set us on a path to 100% clean energy. We deserve clean air, respect from the administration, and a voice in our future,” said Liter.
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