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.
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, together with the AGs from Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, is asking an Illinois federal court to temporarily close Chicago area shipping locks in order to block the migration of invasive Asian carp. The Chicago Tribune reports that the suit charges the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago and [...]
In the last day many outlets have covered the plan, touted by Illinois governor Pat Quinn, to reduce the number of Asian carp in area water bodies by promoting the harvesting and export of the fish as food for the Chinese market. Missing from the discussion, it seems, is acknowledgment that carp are bottom-feeding fish [...]
The governor of Illinois, Pat Quinn, has a plan to reduce the number of Asian carp in rivers and streams in that state: Sell them to China as food. Apparently, Asian carp are a delicacy in China and a Chinese meat processing company was anxious to get their hands on as many of them as [...]
Sen. Carl Levin reacted to Indiana state officials downplaying the threat of Asian carp reaching the Great Lakes after the invasive and voracious fish were found in the Wabash river by sending a letter to the governor urging him to take that threat more seriously. The Detroit News reports:
Concerns about the potential takeover of the Great Lakes by invasive Asian carp took on new urgency this week when researchers announced that the fish have been discovered spawning in an Ohio river near Lake Erie. The Detroit News reports that a breeding population of Asian carp has been discovered in northern parts of the [...]
A coalition of Great Lakes conservation groups is asking President Obama to appoint a “federal incident commander” to coordinate the federal response to the threat posed to the Great Lakes by invasive Asian carp. Last week months of positive Asian carp DNA samples were confirmed when a 20 lb. Bighead Asian carp was caught in [...]
The discovery this week of a sexually mature Asian carp in a lake connected to Lake Michigan has prompted renewed calls for emergency containment actions and for the ecological separation of the Mississippi River basin and the Great Lakes.
In the latest effort to determine how close the Asian carp may have gotten to the Great Lakes, a project that poisoned a stretch of river and killed tens of thousands of fish has, once again, turned up no Asian carp. The Detroit Free Press reports:
Federal officials closed a portion of the Chicago canal system this week and began poisoning the waters with rotenone in order to kill any invasive Asian carp that may have made it across an electric fish barrier intended to keep them out of Lake Michigan. The Detroit Free Press reports that Michigan Attorney General Mike [...]
State and federal authorities will again poison a stretch of Chicago’s Cal-Sag channel in an effort to block Asian carp from migrating into Lake Michigan, Reuters reports. On May 20 the fish poison rotenone will be applied to a portion of the channel that is on the Lake Michigan side of the T.J. O’Brien Lock [...]
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