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.
For the first time in more than 30 years, Michigan will ban the burning of household refuse.
Because of changes ordered by outgoing Gov. Jennifer Granholm, the head of the state’s primary environmental agency, now known as the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment, will be appointed directly by the governor rather than by a state commission. Howard Meyerson says this decision will tell a great deal about Rick Snyder:
A GOP plan to raise money by logging more of the state forest has been abandoned for lack of support.
Michigan State University has been ordered to pay $27,000 in fines by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment. The MSU student newspaper, the State News, reports the fines stem from two incidents revolving around the university’s coal burning power plant.
The state’s new Department of Natural Resources and Environment is holding a public hearing tonight on permits for a 22 mile long road that has been proposed by Kennecott Eagle Minerals which plans a nickel sulfide mine on the Yellow Dog plain northwest of Marquette. The road is designed to accommodate trucks that will haul [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm is facing opposition to her Oct. 8 executive order that restructures government by combining the departments of Natural Resources and Environmental Quality. The order also removed the power of the Agriculture Commission and the Natural Resources Commission to appoint the directors of their departments. The move was presented as a way to save money but farmers, sportsmen and conservationists say they are worried that it will improperly concentrate power in the governor’s office.
Employees of the state departments of Natural Resources and Environmental Quality have received notice that their departments will merge as of Jan. 17, 2010. DNR Director Becky Humphries and DEQ Director Stephen Chester told their staff members to expect details of the restructuring plan to be announced in an executive order to be issued by [...]
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