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 state Dept. of Environmental Quality is asking people to weigh in on new aspects of the long-delayed plan to build a coal-fired power plant in Rogers City.
If Michigan farms supplied all of the fruits and vegetables that people eat here during the growing season around 4,000 jobs would be created, according to a new study commissioned by the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. Patty Cantrell, senior policy analyst at the Michigan Land Use Institute writes that the [...]
Ag policy wonks, school officials and farmers are celebrating the passage of legislation designed to smooth the way for greater purchasing of local farm products by school food-service managers.
When the Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Company, the second-largest supplier of beef to the USDA’s National School Lunch program, responded to revelations of cow mistreatment at its California facility by recalling 143 million pounds of beef this week, the nation got a lesson in the degree to which the American food system is centralized. Now, as [...]
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