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.
To mark the first anniversary of when Enbridge formally notified the federal government that an estimated one million gallons of crude oil had been released into the Kalamazoo River watershed, environmentalists are calling on two Republican congressman to stop political attacks aimed at the Environmental Protection Agency.
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:
MOUNT CLEMENS — Macomb County faces an all-too-familiar Michigan problem these days: plunging property tax collections leading directly to decimated public budgets. But here in the state’s third most populous county, downsizing the budget means supersizing the risk of contaminated water, among other public health calamities.
Michigan lawmakers reached a bipartisan compromise on water withdrawals yesterday. A coalition of environmental groups hailed the deal, but one clean water advocacy group called it a failure. The measure sets regulations for in-state water use and is tied to the Great Lakes Compact, legislation designed to codify regional control of Great Lakes water resources. [...]
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