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.
A U.S. Dept. of Transportation grant awarded Wednesday will help create a high speed rail line across southern Michigan and cut 30 minutes from the travel time between Detroit and Chicago.
A $150 million grant from the Department of Transportation to the state of Michigan will be used to upgrade the tracks between Kalamazoo and Dearborn to make way for a high-speed train between the two cities. The Detroit News reports:
If you consider yourself a train aficionado, I imagine you’re ears perked up when President Obama dropped that $8 billion pledge for new investments in high-speed rail corridors in his State of the Union address last night. Later today in Tampa, Florida, Obama is expected to elaborate on the plan to upgrade rail networks in [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm says Michigan, and surrounding Midwest states, are prepared to capitalize on high speed rail systems being pushed by the Obama administration. In an interview with WJR radio in Detroit, Granholm had this to say:
The Associated Press reports that the next victim of state budget cutting may well be millions of dollars in Amtrak subsidies that keep the trains running along two major routes in the state.
The Associated Press reports that an envisioned system of high-speed rail lines around the Midwest, including a line from Chicago to Detroit, is at the top of the list of projects that may be approved under the stimulus bill because the project is well-developed and supported heavily by the states involved.
The plan has been laid-out, governors throughout the region have signed-on to it and the money is now available. All that needs to happen now is a political engine to move the Midwest Regional Rail Initiative forward. And even though he might be new to Washington, D.C., U.S. Rep. Mark Schauer might be one of the engineers that helps make high speed rail in Michigan — long talked about but never adequately funded — a reality.
President Obama on Thursday revealed the administration’s plans for developing high-speed rail lines in ten corridors around the country. Included in the plan is one line from Detroit to Chicago and another from Chicago to Toledo and Cleveland right along Michigan’s southern border. Here’s the map of the administration’s planned rail lines:
Rep. Thad McCotter (R-Livonia) had an op-ed in the Detroit News slamming the stimulus package signed by Obama yesterday and he repeated one of the most ridiculous talking points the Republicans have been using against the bill. I’m sure you’ve heard all about that high-speed rail line that Harry Reid between Los Angeles and Las [...]
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