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.
In a recent interview former Dept. of Natural Resources Director Rebecca Humphries compared the ‘Pure Michigan’ marketing campaign to “putting pretty paint on a house that is structurally unstable.”
Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment Director Rebecca Humphries announced yesterday that she is resigning from her position in state government to work as director of the Great Lakes/Atlantic Regional Office of Ducks Unlimited in Ann Arbor. “This opportunity will allow me to continue my career in conservation,” Humphries told DNRE staff yesterday in [...]
Department of Natural Resources director Rebecca Humphries has been picked to lead the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment — the new department slated to form next week when the DNR and Department of Environmental Quality merge. The combination of the departments, described as a streamlining measure, was ordered last October in an executive [...]
Michigan politicians at the state and federal level are pushing the U.S. Congress to pass stricter rules governing the handling of ballast from ships that go from the oceans to the Great Lakes in order to prevent the costly infestation of invasive species.
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