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 world’s largest mining company, the Melbourne-based BHP Billiton has dropped its $16 billion bid to take over Rio Tinto which is working to develop mines in Michigan.
Rio Tinto, through its subsidiary Kennecott Eagle Minerals Co., is in the process of securing permits for a controversial nickel and copper mine in the Upper Peninsula near Marquette and has identified several other potential mine sites.
But metal prices have dropped sharply in recent months as demand has declined with consumer spending.
“Mining stocks were Europe’s worst performers after carmakers [yesterday],” Bloomberg.com reported, “as BHP’s withdrawal provided the latest example of a cooling market for mergers and acquisitions.”
Earlier this year the Chinese state-owned aluminum corporation, Chinalco, spent $14 billion for a 12 percent share of Rio Tinto. China is the largest consumer of nickel and iron and industry analysts described the Rio Tinto buy as an attempt to block a Rio Tinto-BHP merger which was seen as likely to drive up prices for China.
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