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The Michigan Messenger going forward

By Staff Report | 11.16.11

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 [...]

Colorado-based abstinence program provided false and misleading information to Michigan students

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.16.11

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.

Class action lawsuit filed against MERS over unpaid taxes

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.15.11

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.

Schuette fights important mercury regulations

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By Eartha Jane Melzer | 11.14.11

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.

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As Kalamazoo River cleanup is celebrated, next phase of PCB remediation set to be announced

By Chris Killian | 06.08.09 | 6:32 pm

Updated, June 9, 3:38 p.m.

PLAINWELL — It might seem like just a small-scale cleanup in a gargantuan overall project to rid the Kalamazoo River of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, but state and federal environmental officials are hailing the next step in the cleanup of the river as the kind of sustained progress that has been sought for decades.

The yet-to-be announced $10 million project will take place at and behind a diversion dam about 2 miles upstream from Plainwell, which is about 10 miles north of Kalamazoo, said Jim Saric, remedial project manager for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

K’zoo River cleanup slowed by chemical company’s bankruptcy protection

By Chris Killian | 03.30.09 | 6:38 am

KALAMAZOO — Be patient: That’s the message from federal environmental regulators to advocates and stakeholders pressing for the cleanup of hundreds of thousands of pounds of sediment and soil in the Kalamazoo River contaminated with harmful polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, a remnant of the papermaking industry that flourished along the river for most of the 20th century.