Posts by Eartha Jane Melzer

The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians have filed a motion to join Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Ohio in a federal case that charges the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is not doing enough to keep the invasive carp from migrating into the Great Lakes.

Uppermichiganssource.com reports that the tribe wants to join [...]

Enbridge has notified the state of Michigan that it must reinforce the section of pipeline that runs under Straits of Mackinac this month.
In an Aug. 26 letter to the Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment the company said that it will perform visual inspections and build ten or more additional support structures for the 20 [...]

Last week’s unexpected resignation by Justice Elizabeth Weaver, a Republican, and subsequent replacement by Justice Alton Thomas Davis, a Democrat, may not only reshape the Michigan Supreme Court, it could change the entire electoral map for the state for the next ten years.

A former principal, a school accountant and a police officer are being charged with felonies for embezzling more than $150,000 from the Detroit Public Schools, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy and DPS emergency manager Robert Bobb announced today.
The Detroit Free Press reports that the charges were brought following a DPS investigation that was triggered by [...]

Volunteers for the Detroit Public School system are touring the city and surrounding suburbs in a mobile enrollment vehicle in hopes of boosting enrollment in the city’s schools before the school year begins.
A recent study by Excellent Schools Detroit, a coalition that includes the Detroit Public Schools, found that about 90 percent of the schools [...]

United States Customs and Border Protection has authority to enforce immigration laws within 100 miles of the border, and in recent years the agency has stepped up checks on public trains and buses close to the Northern border. The New York Times reports that thousands of people have been detained during the checks, which some [...]

A former aide to State Sen. Michelle McManus (R-Lake Leelanau) who worked on her 1998 congressional campaign claims that McManus directed her to break election law and to sign a false affidavit to conceal that act.
Christi Carpenter told the Traverse City Record Eagle, that during that campaign McManus told her to sign her name to [...]

The race to replace Rep. Bart Stupak in Michigan’s District 1 is made more complex by third-party challengers from both right and left.

Governor Jennifer Granholm has announced that she is appointing Judge Alton Thomas Davis of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, a Democrat from Grayling, to fill the seat vacated by Justice Elizabeth Weaver who announced her retirement from the state Supreme Court today.
Weaver, who is a Republican, had planned to seek reelection as an Independent. [...]

A dent in an oil pipeline that runs under the St. Clair River is not a safety concern, Enbridge officials said Wednesday, and the company has no schedule for repairing it.
“That dent is not an urgent matter of any kind,” Enbridge Vice President Stephen Wuori told reporters yesterday.