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 federal court in Northern Michigan ruled against a group of shipping companies that challenged the authority of the Great Lakes states to set tougher rules on the handling of ballast tanks that can harbor invasive species.
With the legislature having failed to pass legislation to prevent the Department of Natural Resources from enforcing a ban on wild pig hunting, the DNR is set to make that ban functional July 8.
After decades of progress against lampreys — eel-like animals that kill fish by sucking the blood out of them — in the Great Lakes, regulators say budget cuts this year could facilitate a comeback for the invasive species.
A Canadian trucker was fined $50,000 this week for trying to take about four thousand pounds of live Asian carp into Canada via the Ambassador Bridge.
For the second time, Michigan and other Great Lakes states have lost a lawsuit to force the government to close the locks between Lake Michigan and various rivers through the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal in order to prevent the invasive Asian carp from reaching the world’s largest freshwater ecosystem. The Detroit Free Press reports. [...]
Attorneys for all of the Great Lakes states other than Indiana and Illinois participated in oral argument in federal court on Monday in a case seeking to force the hand of the federal government to close the locks that separate the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal from Lake Michigan. The states argue that the risk [...]
Facing pressure from all of the states that rely on the Great Lakes for tourism and fishing over the need to prevent the invasive Asian carp from reaching the world’s largest freshwater system, President Obama today named John Goss as his Asian carp “czar” to advise the White House on the best way to proceed. [...]
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 [...]
Scientists studying Lake Superior say that according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration water in the lake is 15 degrees warmer than normal for this time of year and is on track to exceed its record temperature of 68 degrees. The New York Times reports that the Great Lakes are viewed as [...]
The governor of Illinois, Pat Quinn, has a plan to reduce the number of Asian carp in rivers and streams in that state: Sell them to China as food. Apparently, Asian carp are a delicacy in China and a Chinese meat processing company was anxious to get their hands on as many of them as [...]
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