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.
An op-ed in U.S. News and World Report, written by former Apollo Alliance president Jerome Ringo, cites Michigan as a success in creating new jobs based on policies that promote a clean environment and renewable and sustainable energy sources. Ringo writes:
The LA Times has an article chronicling the attempt by Eaton Rapids, Michigan-based Dowding Industries as it attempts to make the transition from manufacturing auto supplies to making wind turbines. The company took out a $12 million loan to retool their plant to make parts for the new green economy but things have been rough [...]
LANSING — Officials from the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth (DELEG) huddled with some 1,400 business owners, students and residents to discuss the future of green industry in a state known more for making autos that consume fossil fuel. Van Jones, recently named a special adviser to the White House Council on Environmental Quality, delivered a keynote address “Green Today, Jobs Tomorrow” at the gathering.
The push to retool Detroit as a center of green manufacturing got a small but significant boost today with the announcement of a new wind turbine plant that will initially create 250 jobs. The Detroit News reports that Global Wind Systems will open the facility in Novi, Mich., about thirty miles outside of Detroit, and [...]
Detroit is already making big plans that would help them cash in on President-elect Barack Obama’s proposed $150 billion economic stimulus package. The bill package will have a designated amount of money earmarked to fund energy conservation and sustainable living projects. That could be why Detroit Mayor Kenneth Cockrel announced Wednesday that the city will [...]
Environmentalists seem cautiously optimistic about Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s announcement Monday that the city will opt out of buying the incinerator that burns two-thirds of the city’s trash. Continued -
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