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.
Both candidates seeking Flint’s top political job agree that something needs to be done to stem the tide of blight that seems to be increasing as the economy continues to falter. To what degree the city, once Michigan’s second largest, should be involved is where they disagree.
KALAMAZOO — A day after officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency discussed the next phase of work to remove soil and sediment contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, from the Kalamazoo River near the city of Plainwell, the agency made the project official on Tuesday.
Updated, June 9, 3:38 p.m.
PLAINWELL — It might seem like just a small-scale cleanup in a gargantuan overall project to rid the Kalamazoo River of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, but state and federal environmental officials are hailing the next step in the cleanup of the river as the kind of sustained progress that has been sought for decades.
The yet-to-be announced $10 million project will take place at and behind a diversion dam about 2 miles upstream from Plainwell, which is about 10 miles north of Kalamazoo, said Jim Saric, remedial project manager for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
KALAMAZOO — Federal environmental officials announced recently an agreement with Georgia-Pacific Corp. to begin work on capping a Kalamazoo Township landfill filled with material laden with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, part of a federal Superfund cleanup of the Kalamazoo River.
The plan has been laid-out, governors throughout the region have signed-on to it and the money is now available. All that needs to happen now is a political engine to move the Midwest Regional Rail Initiative forward. And even though he might be new to Washington, D.C., U.S. Rep. Mark Schauer might be one of the engineers that helps make high speed rail in Michigan — long talked about but never adequately funded — a reality.
The city of Marquette’s finance director, Gary Simpson, isn’t worried about this year, but if cuts in state revenue sharing like the ones mandated by Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Tuesday become routine, things will be different. And while some local governments won’t feel pain in the near term, some may be forced to fire more workers. “Could there be more layoffs? Yes,” said Carl Solden, supervisor for Oakland County’s Waterford Township.
KALAMAZOO — Voters in the Grand Rapids area and in Kalamazoo County will go to the polls on Tuesday to vote on two separate public transportation measures that would fund a new bus rapid transit line in one case and stave off looming cuts to existing bus service in the other.
Wait and see: That’s what law enforcement agencies across Michigan are doing when it comes to the state’s new medical marijuana law. At the moment, there is no reason to believe that an incident which occurred in March where a Madison Heights couple was arrested for growing marijuana they said was for medical purposes should be viewed as common law enforcement policy across the state, said Tom Hendrickson, executive director of the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police.
KALAMAZOO — A member of a Kalamazoo City Commission subcommittee charged with making a recommendation to the full commission regarding a controversial human rights ordinance does not want the original purpose of the legislation to be carved away.
Making good on a bet she made last week with fellow Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue of North Carolina, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm was photographed wearing a University of North Carolina jersey and cap and munching on a Krispy Kreme doughnut with blue icing. Both governors made the friendly wager in the days before the NCAA [...]
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