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.
The Missaukee Circuit Court has granted Attorney General Mike Cox permission to intervene in a lawsuit filed by Wolverine Power Cooperative which claims that the state did not have the authority to deny an air permit for a coal plant planned for Rogers City.
The Wolverine Power Cooperative is suing the state of Michigan for denying an air permit for a coal-fired power plant the company planned to build in Rogers City.
In May the Michigan Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment denied an air permit for a 600 megawatt petroleum coke and coal fired power plant planned by the Wolverine Power Cooperative in Rogers City stating that the plant was not necessary and would drive up electricity rates. Now Wolverine has filed suit against the state [...]
A dozen environmental groups are asking the Michigan Public Service Commission to take a hard look at a analysis submitted by Wolverine Power Cooperative in support of its proposal to build a 600 megawatt coal-fired power plant in Rogers City. “Electricity co-op customers in the Western Upper Peninsula learned recently that they will be hit [...]
A permit for a controversial petroleum coke-fired power plant planned for Rogers City has come under renewed scrutiny because of reports of a conflict of interest by the chairman of the Presque Isle County Board of Commissioners.
A report commissioned by a group fighting the development of a new coal-fired power plant in Rogers City finds that increasing transportation costs for coal will force the Wolverine Power Cooperative to double its utility rates when the planned plant goes on line. The economic analysis of the proposed plant, which was done by Tom [...]
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