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.
Officials in Wisconsin say that a bluff at a local coal-fired power plant collapsed Monday, sending a cascade of soil, coal ash and vehicles into Lake Michigan.
BENTON HARBOR — While this southwest Michigan city’s new Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course opened this summer only partially constructed, more than 2,500 visitors have hit the links in what used to be the public dunes along Lake Michigan. And just as expanded operations ramp up into the 2010 season, concerns about the privatization of public parkland in a poverty-stricken community are finding an audience in some powerful venues.
As Michigan seeks to close its wind power gap with neighboring states, it is also approaching a formidable political hurdle: Is the state ready to accept offshore wind turbines in waters prized by boaters and wealthy lakeshore property owners alike?
BENTON HARBOR — Developers of a Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course under construction on public parkland are trying to grow turf atop Jean Klock Park’s Lake Michigan sand dunes and open a portion of the course for business before a decision is reached in the federal case that seeks to stop the project, where critics say 22 acres of dunes were swapped for inland parcels of land contaminated with industrial chemicals.
Developers of a controversial golf course in Benton Harbor are asking a federal judge to speed the proceedings in a lawsuit brought by area citizens who say the planned course involves unlawful taking of public parkland, the Kalamazoo Gazette reports.
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