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.
A campaign violation allegation against a former Allegan County judge has lead to a heated exchange between the Campaign for Michigan Families and the Allegan County News. Campaign for Michigan Families is a political action committee operated by Gary Glenn of the American Family Association.
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 U.S. Supreme Court has turned down an appeal petition in a case involving a proposed Indian casino in the West Michigan community of Gun Lake. The move effectively ends the legal battle between the Gun Lake Tribe and a group called Michigan Gambling Opposition, which has tried for years to block the building of [...]
For the first time in two years, Governor Jennifer M. Granholm is calling out the National Guard to help with cleanup and other actions in the wake of recent storms. Granholm issued an executive order Monday activating the Michigan National Guard to assist jurisdictions operating under a state of emergency because of storms that swept [...]
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