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.
The new Republican majority on the state supreme court has erased a recent decision that restored the right of citizens to sue the state in environmental disputes.
Republican Attorney General Bill Schuette is asking the new Republican majority of the Michigan Supreme Court to reconsider several last minute rulings made at the end of the court’s 2010 session before conservatives took over the court.
The Michigan Supreme Court has overturned one of the most controversial rulings in its history and upheld a citizen’s right to sue the state for issuing permits to corporations authorizing action that harms the environment.
The Michigan Supreme Court has already heard oral argument in a case that could reinterpret the state’s most important environmental law governing access to the state’s freshwater resources, but whether they will rule before a new, more conservative court is sworn in remains to be seen.
TRAVERSE CITY — Amid a global scarcity of clean drinking water, private corporations have seized control of much of the world’s water supply, but in Northern Michigan a politically connected grassroots movement is galvanizing around an alternative, more traditional, view of water — that it should be held in public trust for the benefit of all.
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