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.
It’s been widely noted that recently-ousted House Energy and Commerce committee chairman John Dingell (D-Mich.) has used his position to advocate the interests of Michigan’s big automakers. Forbes points out another potentially meaningful difference between Dingell and the new chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) — contributions from the nuclear industry.
While Waxman’s top 2008 donors are unions, the nuclear industry is high on Dingell’s list.
…Aside from GM and Ford, Dingell’s other top contributors in 2008 were EnergySolutions, a nuclear fuel recycling and disposal company ($29,350), Comcast (nasdaq: CMCSA – news – people ) ($28,400), private equity firm Linsay, Goldberg and Bessemer ($20,700) and Michigan-based utilities DTE Energy (nyse: DTE – news – people ) ($19,750) and CMS Energy (nyse: CMS – news – people ) ($17,000).
It will be interesting to see how the change in leadership is received by the nuclear industry in Michigan.
DTE Energy, for example, has applied for a permit to build the first new nuclear power reactor in decades at its plant in Monroe. Company chairman and CEO Anthony Earley also serves as chairman of the board of directors at the Nuclear Energy Institute.
The blog of the Nuclear Energy Institute has noted the leadership change at the House Energy and Commerce Committee and has promised further coverage.
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