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.
Officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will visit Lansing on Monday evening to discuss how to spend the $475 million delegated for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative under President Obama’s 2010 budget. In this primer about the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, the Great Lakes Commission states:
The U.S. House has approved an appropriations bill that designates $475 million for efforts to clean up pollution and stop invasive species in the Great Lakes. The Detroit News reports that the bill includes:
President Obama, perhaps signaling his commitment to a serious effort to clean up and protect the world’s largest freshwater lakes, has appointed a Great Lakes ‘czar’ to lead those efforts. The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
In the budget blueprint announced by the White House last week, President Barack Obama proposes $475 million to begin a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. The money would be spent by the EPA on a wide range of issues including invasive species, industrial and agricultural runoff and contaminated sediments in rivers and lakes.
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