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.
Following up on Wednesday’s story about Congressman Pete Hoekstra’s ties to the Republican Study Committee, Hoekstra has told the Grand Rapids Press that the feds should have filed suit against British Petroleum to secure the $20 billion escrow.
Pete Hoekstra is coming under fire because a Republican caucus he belongs to in Congress has condemned the White House-negotiated establishment of a $20 billion fund to support those harmed by the Gulf oil disaster as a “Chicago-style political shakedown.”
House Democrats announced yesterday that they will seek a constitutional amendment to ban offshore drilling in the great lakes. Michigan and the other Great Lakes states have already enacted a pact that bans drilling for natural gas and oil in the Lakes, but some say that a constructional amendment banning the practice would provide stronger [...]
According to Andy Buchsbaum of the National Wildlife Federation Kennecott’s planned Upper Peninsula nickel sulfide mine, like BP’s Gulf oil wells, is a high risk underground extraction operation characterized by inappropriately cozy relations with regulators. In a blog post titled Coming soon: Michigan’s version of the BP disaster Buchsbaum writes that acid mine drainage is [...]
Off shore oil and gas drilling has been banned in the U.S. waters of the Great Lakes since 2005, but the Canadians are operating hundreds of off shore gas wells in Lake Erie. In the wake of the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill some, including Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), are calling for more oversight [...]
Rep. Bart Stupak may be retiring at the end of this term but he’s still got work to do. As chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, Stupak will hold hearings on the question of whether BP’s internal cost cutting might be responsible for the disastrous spill in the Gulf [...]
The region’s fishing catch is expected to fall by hundreds of millions of pounds, costing hundreds of millions of dollars.
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