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.
It’s often touted as the best hope to resurrect manufacturing in Michigan — large-scale production and assembly of lithium ion battery packs for the hybrid or pure electric vehicles of the future. According to news from the state Capitol, lawmakers in Lansing want to dangle the carrot of tax credits in front of a several [...]
Though expected to reach a decision on whether a group of roughly 2,000 landowners along the Tittabawassee River could be grouped together for a class action suit against Dow Chemical for releasing the dioxin that pollutes their land, the Michigan Supreme Court declined to make a final ruling on the matter and sent the case [...]
FREELAND — At this past weekend’s fishing celebration in Saginaw County, the state’s advisory to avoid consumption of locally caught fish in a river contaminated by Dow Chemical went largely unnoticed by the crowds. And despite warnings from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality that toxic river sediments can settle on a riverside dock, families at Walleye Fest were walking barefoot as high water partially submerged it.
FREELAND — As Walleye Fest began today in Saginaw County, the U.S. Environmental Agency issued a note to reporters on the need for people to have current and accurate information when making decisions about eating local fish. The agency also announced that the Saginaw County Health Department would attend this weekend’s festival and distribute flyers [...]
Michigan Messenger’s recent reporting on dioxin contamination in the watershed downstream from The Dow Chemical Company made MSNBC’s Countdown series, “Still Bushed,” on Wednesday evening. Video can be viewed at this link: ‘Still Bushed!’, MSNBC’s Countdown, Mar. 11, 2009 Michigan Messenger’s coverage on dioxin contamination of the Tittabawassee and Saginaw Rivers can be found at [...]
Officials said this week that EPA will try to speed the release of its official findings on the threats posed by dioxin — a chemical that has contaminated Michigan’s largest watershed — after decades of being delayed by political pressures.
Chemical company agrees to clean up Saginaw Township park after more than a year of pleas from officials.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied cert (that is, decided not to hear the appeal) on three separate cases against Michigan-based Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW) over illnesses the plaintiffs blame on the use of agent orange during the Vietnam War. The cert denial means the dismissals of all three cases by the 2nd Circuit [...]
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