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.
Entergy, the Louisiana-based corporation that owns a Michigan nuclear power plant where radioactive tritium was recently detected in on-site groundwater, owns at least two other plants where tritium leaks have occurred and was fined by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a defective warning system this year. Concerned citizens are demanding enhanced monitoring of ground [...]
Radioactive contamination has been detected in a recently installed monitoring well at the Palisades nuclear power plant, which is located on the shore of Lake Michigan near the city of South Haven and is owned and operated by Entergy. Groundwater samples taken Monday evening showed tritium contamination at a concentration of 22,000 picoCuries per liter, [...]
Ontario Power Generation, the Ontario-based electricity generation company, has proposed storing Canada’s nuclear waste 600 meters underground at a site next to Lake Huron. The largest nuclear generating facility in North America, the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, is located near the small Lake Huron town of Kincardine. Last month, Larry Kraemer, the mayor of Kincardine, [...]
Bill Schalk, spokesman for the Cook nuclear power plant in Bridgman, said today that tomorrow morning he will provide Michigan Messenger readers with answers to a series of questions stemming from a recent accident at the Cook facility. Last week a worker at the Cook plant was injured when a piece of equipment fell from [...]
An injured worker from the Cook nuclear power plant was found to be contaminated with radiation after he was transported to the Lakeland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph around 6:30 am yesterday. According to a report filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the worker was struck by a falling object while operating a crane [...]
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