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.
Konrad Dabrowski, an Ohio State University’s aquaculturist with 15 years of experience studying Asian carp, told the Columbus Dispatch that the fish will not out compete native species in the Great Lakes because the lakes do not provide good breeding conditions. Dabrowski said that the conditions that allow carp to thrive in rivers don’t exist [...]
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, together with the AGs from Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, is asking an Illinois federal court to temporarily close Chicago area shipping locks in order to block the migration of invasive Asian carp. The Chicago Tribune reports that the suit charges the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago and [...]
The debate about how to stop the spread of Asian carp has largely centered around economic fears. People in Michigan are worried that if Asian Carp establish in the Great Lakes the regional sport and commercial fishing industries will be destroyed. People around Chicago are worried that area shipping and tourism will suffer if the [...]
It looks like the Asian carp menace could have competition in headlines. Researchers say they have found traces of the deadly fish disease viral hemorrhagic septicemia, or VHS, in Lake Superior. This means the deadly virus is now confirmed in all of the great lakes. The new study was conducted by Cornell University scientists. According [...]
Attorney General Mike Cox’s request that the U.S. Supreme Court protect Great Lakes fisheries from invasive Asian carp by ordering the closure of the locks that connect the Mississippi River to the Lake Michigan drew opposition from the Obama administration this week, the AP reports. In a Jan. 5 brief Solicitor General Elena Kagan told [...]
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