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.
A $6.7 billion energy deal between the Samsung Corp. and Ontario will “instantly” make Ontario a leader in the production of wind turbines, solar inverters and solar modules, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty told the Ottawa Citizen. The deal, announced Thursday, involves the construction of four wind and solar power clusters with a combined generating capacity [...]
Michigan’s Democratic Senators Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow are part of a new push to dilute the climate change bills that are moving through Congress, my colleague Mike Lillis at The Washington Independent reports. Last week Levin and Stabenow joined a dozen other Senate Democrats in asking their party leaders to rewrite the Senate climate [...]
Michigan’s two largest power companies — DTE Energy and Consumers Power — have shut-off utilities to more than 181,000 customers so far this year, the Detroit News reports. A large portion of these shut-offs came this summer as record numbers proved unable to keep up with payment plans designed to pay off large balances racked [...]
The Department of Environmental Quality will host public hearings this week on a plans to build a new 930 megawatt coal-fired power plant at the Consumers Power Karn-Weadock facility at the mouth of the Saginaw River. Consumers Power, the largest electricity provider in Michigan, announced an 11 percent rate increase in March and some worry [...]
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