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.
In a joint release with Michigan State University, Governor Granholm has announced that she supports “continued funding” for the “restructuring” of the university’s Agriculture Research Stations and Extension Service. These university agriculture programs receive most of their annual budget from the state, and were thrown into uncertainty earlier this month when they discovered that the [...]
As the Halloween budget deadline looms, concerns are growing over signs that the governor may veto funding for agricultural research and extension programs seen as critical to the state’s agricultural sector.
Michigan State University — the nation’s first land grant school — could be forced to scrap its agricultural research projects, its county Extension services and its College of Agriculture and Natural Resources if funding reductions made in the state’s interim budget are adopted in the 2010 budget due to be completed this week.
Inmates from the Pugsley Correctional Facility near Kingsley picked apples in northern Michigan this week as part of an effort to ensure that this years bountiful apple crop is put to good use, the Traverse City Record Eagle reports. The prisoners worked at the Northport farm of apple grower Stan Silverman who donated thousands of [...]
The Michigan Department of Agriculture’s food bank program will be cut by 14 percent under a budget approved by a panel of House and Senate negotiators yesterday, AP reports. The Michigan Agriculture Surplus Program pays farmers to harvest, clean, package and ship surplus fruits and vegetables that they donate to Michigan’s needy. It supplied around [...]
The Traverse City Commission has amended the town’s ordinance on prohibited animals to allow for small scale urban chicken farming. According to the new ordinance, which went into effect Sept. 18:
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will be traveling to Charlotte in Eaton County next week as part of an Obama administration tour of rural areas to showcase what’s been done with federal stimulus dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to benefit local communities through agricultural development. U.S. Rep. Mark Schauer, who represents Eaton [...]
Michigan schools have until May 29th to apply to the state Department of Education for federal Recovery Act funds for equipment to improve school lunch service. Many school cafeterias lack equipment needed to prepare meals from scratch and can only heat and serve prepared food.
Michigan’s agricultural sector will create 12,000 – 23,000 jobs per year through 2011, according to a study by Michigan State University’s Product Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources, the Detroit News reports.
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