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.
Muskegon had some of the worst air quality in the nation yesterday as pollution and hot air from northern Illinois and Indiana moved over Lake Michigan forming ozone that covered much of the state’s west coast.
The Province of Ontario has announced that it will wait on further scientific study of offshore wind farms before moving forward with controversial plans to install large scale windmills in Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie.
The Michigan Department of Corrections says a deal to house prisoners from Pennsylvania will net the state nearly three quarters of a million dollars in revenue. The Muskegon Chronicle reports on comments from MDOC spokesman Russ Marlan:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced this week that Michigan will receive $10.3 million for the revitalization of contaminated industrial and commercial facilities. In a statement released as President Obama’s Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers, Dr. Ed Montgomery, toured the state, EPA said that Michigan will receive the most brownfield money and [...]
The National Voter Hotline (866-OUR-VOTE) organized by the National Lawyer’s Committee, the ACLU and other groups, is reporting several major malfunctions of voting machines at precincts around the state. Those malfunctions are slowing down the voting process and may be causing some voters to have to leave. Here’s the list of polling locations that have [...]
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