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.
Michigan schools will be able to use USDA funds to purchase locally grown food for their cafeterias under a pilot program that is expected to boost the state’s agricultural sector and the nutritional value of school lunches.
Michigan schools have until May 29th to apply to the state Department of Education for federal Recovery Act funds for equipment to improve school lunch service. Many school cafeterias lack equipment needed to prepare meals from scratch and can only heat and serve prepared food.
When the Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Company, the second-largest supplier of beef to the USDA’s National School Lunch program, responded to revelations of cow mistreatment at its California facility by recalling 143 million pounds of beef this week, the nation got a lesson in the degree to which the American food system is centralized. Now, as [...]
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