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.
Facing pressure from all of the states that rely on the Great Lakes for tourism and fishing over the need to prevent the invasive Asian carp from reaching the world’s largest freshwater system, President Obama today named John Goss as his Asian carp “czar” to advise the White House on the best way to proceed. [...]
The Michigan congressional delegation, Republican and Democrat alike, are making a plea for the support of their colleagues from other states to pass a bill that would close down the locks and canals that separate Lake Michigan from the Mississippi River to prevent the Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes. The Detroit News reports:
The debate about how to stop the spread of Asian carp has largely centered around economic fears. People in Michigan are worried that if Asian Carp establish in the Great Lakes the regional sport and commercial fishing industries will be destroyed. People around Chicago are worried that area shipping and tourism will suffer if the [...]
A $78.5 million dollar federal plan to keep Asian carp from becoming established in the Great Lakes is drawing criticism from diverse groups that say the proposed temporary closure of the locks in Chicago area canals will disrupt the economy without stopping the spread of aquatic invaders.
While Gov. Jennifer Granholm has been meeting with federal executive agencies trying to get more immediate action taken to prevent the Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes, Attorney General Mike Cox has been urging the Supreme Court and the Department of Justice to do the same thing. But he says he’s having as little [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a motion filed by Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox for a preliminary injunction ordering the closure of the locks that separate the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal from Lake Michigan in order to prevent the Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes. They did so without comment. This is [...]
It seems like the bad news on this issue is coming in faster and faster every week. Now the Detroit Free Press reports that new tests have found DNA for Asian carp right next to Lake Michigan in the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal.
The U.S. Supreme Court delayed taking action on a request by all of the Great Lakes states except Illinois to reconsider an 80 year old ruling and shut down the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal that links the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan, action they say is necessary to prevent the Asian carp from reaching [...]
Attorney General Mike Cox’s request that the U.S. Supreme Court protect Great Lakes fisheries from invasive Asian carp by ordering the closure of the locks that connect the Mississippi River to the Lake Michigan drew opposition from the Obama administration this week, the AP reports. In a Jan. 5 brief Solicitor General Elena Kagan told [...]
The attorneys general of Minnesota and Ohio have joined Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox in filing motions with the U.S. Supreme Court asking them to reopen an 80 year old case involving the legality of the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal and take action to prevent the Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes. Minnesota [...]
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