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 Michigan Department of Agriculture is telling Michigan residents who are developing home-grown seafood programs to slow down.
Michigan beekeepers say an initiative to rid the state of an invasive species could hurt their business, according to a report by the Associated Press.
The Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday announced that water testing being conducted in Morrow Lake has identified trace levels of hydrocarbons, which are naturally present in oil. Mark Durno, EPA deputy onsite incident commander, says the chemicals are a “fingerprint” of petroleum, however, the testing has not identified any levels of benzene — a chemical officials [...]
The Michigan departments of Agriculture and Community Health are warning those who operate eateries in the state of a scam. According to a joint press release from the two departments, an unidentified person is calling up eateries masquerading as Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) official. The caller then tells the staff the eatery is due [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm is facing opposition to her Oct. 8 executive order that restructures government by combining the departments of Natural Resources and Environmental Quality. The order also removed the power of the Agriculture Commission and the Natural Resources Commission to appoint the directors of their departments. The move was presented as a way to save money but farmers, sportsmen and conservationists say they are worried that it will improperly concentrate power in the governor’s office.
In response to serious budget problems, the Michigan Department of Agriculture announced on Wednesday that they are permanently closing all of their regional offices around the state as well as the district office in Marquette. The offices being closed down are located in Detroit, Escanaba, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Saginaw, St. Joseph, and Traverse City. In [...]
The Michigan Department of Agriculture’s food bank program will be cut by 14 percent under a budget approved by a panel of House and Senate negotiators yesterday, AP reports. The Michigan Agriculture Surplus Program pays farmers to harvest, clean, package and ship surplus fruits and vegetables that they donate to Michigan’s needy. It supplied around [...]
The Michigan Departments of Environmental Quality and Agriculture announced the preliminary results of an investigation into alleged illegal contamination by Gallagher Farm Services in Ionia County. The 4,500 acre Gallagher farm was raided in July after environmental officials got a tip that harmful chemicals were buried on the property. Initial DEQ testing seems to confirm [...]
The Senate’s proposed budget would cut most of the funds for a state Department of Agriculture program that distributed 5 million pounds of Michigan produce to food banks last year, the Lansing State Journal reports. Statewide food banks have experienced a 30 percent increase in demand this year.
A federal court has ruled in favor of the state of Michigan and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in a case alleging that rules requiring farmers to tag their livestock for identification in order to help identify and prevent the spread of disease violated the religious liberty of farmers who think such tags constitute [...]
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