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.
[COMMENTARY] Saturday’s Manchester (U.K.) Guardian reported on pollution in France’s Rhone river. Apparently, a string of governments has ignored a serious PCB problem for more than 20 years. And this is horrible because poor people have eaten the contaminated fish. Sound familiar, Great Lakes readers? What throws France’s problem into relief is the thought of [...]
Cleanup of polluted groundwater under the city of Ann Arbor and neighboring townships could be hurt by a budget cut. The cleanup depends on oversight by Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality. But last week, Steven Chester, director of the DEQ, announced that an $80 million shortfall threatens his department. “Whatever remediation systems we are paying [...]
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