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.
Due to further reductions in gas tax revenue the state of Michigan is expected to cut spending on projects to fix the state’s roads in 2012 by more than 50 percent compared to last year. The Detroit News reports:
The director of Michigan’s Economic Recovery office said this week that the state does not have the capacity to post comprehensive information about how it spends federal stimulus money on its American Recovery and Reinvestment Act website. The comments by Economic Recovery Office Director Leslee Fritz were in response to a recent report by the Washington, D.C.-based Good Jobs First that criticized Michigan and other states for failing to use the Internet to effectively disclosure Recovery Act spending.
LANSING — Facing shortfalls in the budget for summer road maintenance, the Michigan Department of Transportation is experimenting this year with spraying growth retardant chemicals along state-controlled highways in the hopes of reducing the need to mow roadside vegetation. But the little-known pilot project has raised concerns about potential groundwater contamination and possible health effects.
The Michigan Department of Transportation won’t be doing as much grass mowing along state highways this year, the Detroit News reports. The plan is aimed at saving $30 million by scaling back mowing along 9,600 miles of state roads, and though some complain that the extra roadside vegetation is an eyesore, others point out that [...]
It looks like that stimulus package that brought so much money into the state of Michigan for infrastructure projects is going to be a virtual wash in terms of actual spending. The Detroit News reports that nearly 3/4 of a billion dollars in transportation projects have had to be canceled because the state could not [...]
The plan has been laid-out, governors throughout the region have signed-on to it and the money is now available. All that needs to happen now is a political engine to move the Midwest Regional Rail Initiative forward. And even though he might be new to Washington, D.C., U.S. Rep. Mark Schauer might be one of the engineers that helps make high speed rail in Michigan — long talked about but never adequately funded — a reality.
In a time when we have machinery rolling over the surface of Mars, you’d think we would be fully utilizing the science that keeps the wheels on public buses going round and round. But many cities in Michigan seem to be falling behind in perfecting public transport. For example, the city of Warren, the third-largest [...]
For Michigan’s drivers, the misery of potholes is getting worse. Officials say there isn’t enough money in the kitty to fix all the bad roads. Here’s why: No state agency is more closely tied to the price of fuel than the Department of Transportation, which maintains 10,000 miles of state highways and is mostly funded [...]
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