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.
COMSTOCK/GALESBURG, MICH.– Faced with disputed claims from the EPA, Gov. Jennifer Granholm and aides to Rep. Fred Upton, Michigan Messenger has been visiting sites along the Kalamazoo River between Battle Creek and Kalamazoo, particularly around Morrow Lake, to determine exactly how far to the west the oil has reached to this point. Morrow Lake is [...]
The foreclosure crisis may have slipped off the front pages, but it’s not gone. The Kalamazoo Gazette reports that foreclosure is up 70 percent over last year. And making matters worse in Kalamazoo, many of the people facing foreclosure are also victims of scam artists.
Schools across Michigan are shutting down because of the appearance of a flu like illness. Kalamazoo County Health Department says several districts in the county will shut down for the next two days, and individual schools in two other districts are shutting down, reports the Kalamazoo Gazette.
The chief of Kalamazoo’s Department of Public Safety, Jeff Hardley, has drafted a policy intended to assure undocumented immigrants that they can seek help from law enforcement without risk of deportation. According to the Kalamazoo Gazette, police will be prohibited from asking about immigration status during traffic stops or in connection with non-violent crimes under [...]
Updated, June 9, 3:38 p.m.
PLAINWELL — It might seem like just a small-scale cleanup in a gargantuan overall project to rid the Kalamazoo River of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, but state and federal environmental officials are hailing the next step in the cleanup of the river as the kind of sustained progress that has been sought for decades.
The yet-to-be announced $10 million project will take place at and behind a diversion dam about 2 miles upstream from Plainwell, which is about 10 miles north of Kalamazoo, said Jim Saric, remedial project manager for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
KALAMAZOO — Federal environmental officials announced recently an agreement with Georgia-Pacific Corp. to begin work on capping a Kalamazoo Township landfill filled with material laden with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, part of a federal Superfund cleanup of the Kalamazoo River.
KALAMAZOO — Voters in the Grand Rapids area and in Kalamazoo County will go to the polls on Tuesday to vote on two separate public transportation measures that would fund a new bus rapid transit line in one case and stave off looming cuts to existing bus service in the other.
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