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.
Republican Presidential nominee Sen. John McCain will be touring a Dow Corning Corporation factory today. The Republican candidate will be at the plant at 4 p.m. according to Time magazine. The plant makes solar panels, and Democrats are not wasting any time in attacking McCain over the event.
A Court decision that blocked construction of a 1200-megawatt coal-fired power plant may bode well for opponents of new coal plants in Michigan. Last week a judge in Fulton County, GA, denied a permit for the plant planned by LS Energy/Dynegy because of the millions of pounds of CO2 it would release each year. Continued [...]
Gov says agreement puts Michigan at the forefront of next-gen fuels It’s called a cellulosic ethanol plant and it is coming to Michigan, the Upper Peninsula to be exact. Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm and Mascoma Corp. CEO Bruce A. Jamerson announced Friday that several agreements have been reached to move along the Massachusetts company’s efforts [...]
Physicist and Republican Rep. Vern Ehlers walked to the International Conference on Peak Oil and Climate Change in Grand Rapids on Friday and called for more understanding of the laws of thermodynamics. Ehlers, who lives near Calvin College where the energy-conscious crowd was gathered, said that walking rather than driving whenever possible is one way [...]
Complex bills get mixed reviews, with Michigan still behind the pack The passage of a wide-reaching package of energy bills by the House last month was celebrated as a step toward a more modern energy plan for the state, but the renewable energy standards proposed lag behind those in other states and some worry the [...]
A state-regulated energy monopoly is the best approach for keeping down electricity costs, Rep. Frank Accavitti Jr. (D-Oakland Co.), chair of the House Energy and Technology Committee, told Michigan Messenger Wednesday. He spoke during a break in discussion of a bill to eliminate the state’s electricity consumer choice provisions. It`s better to be tied to [...]
Last year engineer Bill Stockhausen used the money he got as a buyout from Ford Motor Co. to purchase a hundred-year-old hydroelectric dam that was facing demolition in the town of Elk Rapids. With the help of his son and son-in-law, he is now refurbishing the dam, which provides power to 700 nearby homes and [...]
Proposals for new coal power plants in Michigan face not only opposition from environmentalists but also tough new requirements from the banks they need for financing. Now that it’s clear that all the top contenders for the U.S. presidency favor addressing climate change, banks have developed a new set of guidelines that require energy intensive [...]
Tonight's townhall with Governor Jennifer Granholm is broadcast live from Grand Rapids, Michigan across all NBC affiliate stations in Michigan — a first time event. The hosting station in Grand Rapids says that it received over 700 emailed questions in advance of the event. NOTE: THIS IS A ROUGH APPROXIMATION OF THE TOWNHALL, NOT A [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm used a good chunk of her State of the State address Tuesday night to discuss alternative energy, which she presented as a major opportunity for job growth in Michigan. Reiterating a pitch for increasing the wind-power industry, which she has been making around the state over the past months, Granholm said that [...]
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