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.
Businesses that make a profit selling Michigan water should pay a ten cent per bottle tax, and this revenue should be used to fund the recently cut Promise Scholarship for Michigan college students, Lt. Gov. John Cherry said at a University of Michigan forum yesterday. The Detroit Free Press reports:
Bottled water is more expensive than tap water, is subject to less stringent safety checks, and involves energy intensive packaging and shipping. For these reasons, The Grand Rapids Press reports, the city of Grand Rapids plans to adopt a resolution ending the purchase and distribution of bottled water at city events. New York City, San [...]
TRAVERSE CITY — Amid a global scarcity of clean drinking water, private corporations have seized control of much of the world’s water supply, but in Northern Michigan a politically connected grassroots movement is galvanizing around an alternative, more traditional, view of water — that it should be held in public trust for the benefit of all.
Bottled water sales are falling for the Nestle corporation, which bottles its Ice Mountain brand water in Mecosta County. The Los Angeles Times reports that the company’s overall water sales are down 2.9 percent so far this year because budget conscious consumers are buying less bottled water in the United States and Europe.
The multi-billion dollar bottled water industry, which has major operations in Michigan, has gone to great lengths to market its product as clean, healthy and superior to other water. But at a congressional hearing led by U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak of Menominee earlier this week, a representative for the Government Accountability Office confirmed what water activists have been saying for years: Bottled water has less oversight than water from municipal systems.
The Nestle corporation is asking the state to approve plans to drill miles of pipe to supply a facility in Stanwood that bottles water under the Ice Mountain brand. The plan involves directional drilling of more than three miles of 5-inch wide stainless steel pipe. Pipes for the well, which will be sited at Osceola [...]
Earlier this month the city of Chicago instituted the first ever city-wide tax on bottled water and Toronto mayor, David Miller, has expressed support for adopting a similar measure. Chicago expects to collect 10.5 million dollars from the new five cent per bottle tax in 2008. Supporters of the measure hope it will educate people [...]
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