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 Detroit Police Department (DPD) wants to hire 500 new officers but is having trouble meeting recruitment goals, according to 2nd Deputy Chief James Tate, head of the police department’s public information office. The recruitment effort, which was put into effect in June last year, has been stunted by the meager advertising budget and a [...]
Canada’s environmental agency is asking for comments on plans to develop an underground nuclear waste storage facility 50 miles from Michigan along the eastern shore of Lake Huron. The proposed dump or “deep geologic repository” would be located in the Ontario municipality of Kincardine, next to the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, the continent’s largest nuclear [...]
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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