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.
Sen. Carl Levin reacted to Indiana state officials downplaying the threat of Asian carp reaching the Great Lakes after the invasive and voracious fish were found in the Wabash river by sending a letter to the governor urging him to take that threat more seriously. The Detroit News reports:
A coalition of Great Lakes conservation groups is asking President Obama to appoint a “federal incident commander” to coordinate the federal response to the threat posed to the Great Lakes by invasive Asian carp. Last week months of positive Asian carp DNA samples were confirmed when a 20 lb. Bighead Asian carp was caught in [...]
In the latest effort to determine how close the Asian carp may have gotten to the Great Lakes, a project that poisoned a stretch of river and killed tens of thousands of fish has, once again, turned up no Asian carp. The Detroit Free Press reports:
Federal officials closed a portion of the Chicago canal system this week and began poisoning the waters with rotenone in order to kill any invasive Asian carp that may have made it across an electric fish barrier intended to keep them out of Lake Michigan. The Detroit Free Press reports that Michigan Attorney General Mike [...]
The Michigan congressional delegation, Republican and Democrat alike, are making a plea for the support of their colleagues from other states to pass a bill that would close down the locks and canals that separate Lake Michigan from the Mississippi River to prevent the Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes. The Detroit News reports:
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to reconsider their earlier rejection of a request by Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox and other legal authorities in the Great Lakes states to issue an injunction to close down the locks separating the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal from Lake Michigan. The court has several options:
Attorney General Mike Cox told an audience in Saginaw on Monday that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to reconsider its previous denial of a request he filed along with several other attorneys general from Great Lakes states for an injunction to close the locks separating the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal from Lake Michigan [...]
The Obama administration has released its plan for how the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative will pursue the most pressing environmental problems in the Great Lakes between now and 2014. $475 million has been allocated for the first year of projects in this program. The five main areas of focus for work are: Toxic Substances and [...]
Two experts from the state of Michigan, hired by Attorney General Mike Cox’s office to study the question of how much it would cost economically to close the locks between Lake Michigan and the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal to help prevent Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes, have concluded that claims of the [...]
A $78.5 million dollar federal plan to keep Asian carp from becoming established in the Great Lakes is drawing criticism from diverse groups that say the proposed temporary closure of the locks in Chicago area canals will disrupt the economy without stopping the spread of aquatic invaders.
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