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 2012 Farm Bill will be hotly debated in Congress in coming months, as members look to cut spending from the federal budget. But recent reports detail a move to include major agricultural cuts in the deficit reduction plan to be developed by the so-called congressional “Super Committee,” as a way to ensure that legislators don’t make even more drastic cuts when they write the forthcoming farm legislation.
A quarter of the cuts required under the recent Congressional debt deal could be beneficially achieved through cuts to environmentally harmful federal subsidies, according to a report produced by a politically diverse coalition.
Michigan schools will be able to use USDA funds to purchase locally grown food for their cafeterias under a pilot program that is expected to boost the state’s agricultural sector and the nutritional value of school lunches.
Julie Bass of Oak Park wanted to save some cash on fresh vegetables, so she started a garden this spring. But now, Oak Park officials are dragging her to court over it.
With the legislature having failed to pass legislation to prevent the Department of Natural Resources from enforcing a ban on wild pig hunting, the DNR is set to make that ban functional July 8.
The state’s highest court has agreed to hear two cases in which people have been charged with crimes for their medicinal use of marijuana. This will be the first time the court weighs in on the 2008 state law that legalized the drug for medical use.
A Wayne County Circuit Court will hear a legal challenge today brought by the ACLU of Michigan on behalf of a blind multiple sclerosis patient against the city of Livonia for a local ordinance that prohibits the growing and use of medical marijuana despite a state law that allows it.
The U.S. Senate may vote as early as today on an amendment that would eliminate one of the major government subsidies for the production of corn-based ethanol.
Federal grant money designated to improve the water quality in Saginaw Bay will instead be used to trap and kill wild pigs. The Bay City Times reports that up to $5.6 million will be made available to private landowners and farmers for feral swine elimination projects in the 19 county region that makes up the [...]
Much of the attention on corn-based ethanol has focused on the role that this supposedly renewable fuel is playing in driving up global food prices. Now environmental groups and some conservative politicians are pointing out another problem — corn-based ethanol consumes the bulk of federal funding on renewable energy and the big oil companies that blend the ethanol into gasoline are collecting subsidies to the tune of about $6 billion a year.
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