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.
Riga Township’s Planning Board is planning a meeting Tuesday night to decide how to proceed with zoning issues around a proposed wind farm in Lenawee County.
Dow Chemical will conduct a test this month to determine whether it would be possible to fuel its Midland operations with energy recovered from burning plastic. Dow is one of the world’s biggest plastic manufacturers with plastics-related business making up about 40 percent of the company’s $46.6 billion in sales last year, Frank Esposito of [...]
Automotive News reports on a new study that reveals what should be obvious to any educated person, that the real environmental benefits of electric cars can’t be realized as long as the cars are powered by electricity generated by coal.
Gov. Granholm announced the formation of a new Great Lakes Wind Council as an advisory board to the Department of Energy, Labor, and Economic Growth that will help identify possible places for placing wind turbines to help generate electricity without the use of fossil fuels:
They will if Congress — and Detroit’s critics — come to understand that the auto industry is infrastructure.
Gov. Granholm signed a series of bills just before Christmas that passed at the end of the last legislative session, bills designed to encourage more production and use of renewable fuels for energy production in the state.
AAA Michigan reported today the statewide average price of gasoline in Michigan is now $1.96 a gallon, a low it hasn’t reached since January, 2007. This steep fall in gas prices comes as a result of economic hard times across the globe that have dampened the demand for oil, according to a report by CNN [...]
October in Michigan doesn’t only represent mass consumption of sugar at Halloween; it’s sugar harvest time here, in the form of sugar beets.
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