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 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to begin sampling Saginaw Township’s West Michigan Park next week to determine how much dioxin was deposited in the Tittabawassee floodplain during recent flooding.
A recent study found that eating meat or vegetables grown in the dioxin-contaminated floodplains around Saginaw causes high dioxin levels in the blood, but few people in the area know that and neither Dow nor the government seems to be taking any steps to inform the public.
Experts and local residents of the dioxin-laden Saginaw River watershed are displeased with a new agreement between the EPA and Dow that allows the chemical company to determine which areas are most in need of cleanup — even after that company has spent decades claiming that there is no need for cleanup at all.
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