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.
Critics say failure to involve Michigan may violate international treaty Millions of people in Michigan get their drinking water downstream from Kincardine, Ontario, where a nuclear waste dump is planned near the shore of Lake Huron. But under draft guidelines for the project, Michigan will not be considered as part of the region that could [...]
The Macomb County Commission and the county’s water quality board have passed resolutions opposing a Canadian plan to create an underground nuclear waste dump on Lake Huron. “This is the craziest damn thing I have ever heard of,” Water Quality Board Chairman Doug Martz said about the plan to store radioactive waste from Ontario’s nuclear [...]
With all the attention focused on the Obama visit, the Michigan House of Representatives quietly and without fanfare passed a measure that will ban the diversion of Great Lakes water. The plan which has been debated for almost a year, passed by the House Wednesday will toughen water bottling standards. It will lower the threshold [...]
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