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.
State environmental groups are calling on the EPA to respond to a Dow-Chemical funded mailer that downplays the risk of living amidst dioxin contamination.
Though violent crime is down overall by 24 percent according to the most recent FBI Unified Crime Report, Saginaw, Michigan — for the seventh year in a row — has been ranked the most violent city with a population over 50,000. There were 2.3 violent crimes per 100 people during 2009. Flint, Detroit and Pontiac [...]
A federal study of a potent toxin that has contaminated Michigan’s largest watershed may not be done by the end of the year as promised. The director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Center for Environmental Assessment, Peter Preuss, has reportedly warned that EPA is “really unlikely” to meet the December 2010 deadline set [...]
GM’s bankruptcy created confusion over who would pay for cleanup at 90 contaminated sites around the country, including 47 here in Michigan. Yesterday the White House announced that it would address this problem by creating an $800 million trust fund to be used for environmental cleanup and demolition at the sites. Speaking from a conference [...]
In June, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency agreed to test the municipal water systems for Saginaw, Midland and Bay City for a range of contaminants. The move, as Michigan Messenger reported, was a response to citizen concerns that navigational dredging in the Saginaw River could stir up dioxin-contaminated sediments that could contaminate city water supplies that draw from Saginaw Bay. Dioxins and furans from Dow Chemical’s Midland plant are known to have contaminated the Tittabawassee and Saginaw rivers and the bay.
SAGINAW — Residents of one city neighborhood have been exposed to health-damaging levels of dioxin, and although the contamination has been removed though a cleanup effort required by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, future flooding is likely to recontaminate the area.
The municipal water systems for Bay City, Saginaw and Midland are slated to be screened for dioxin next week as part of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency effort to address citizen concerns that ongoing navigational dredging in the Saginaw River threatens the region’s water supplies.
Saginaw County has seen a decrease in foreclosures for the first part of the year, according to The Saginaw News. When asked by Michigan Messenger earlier this week about foreclosure rates, counties across the state reported varied increases and decreases in foreclosure filings.
Saginaw County health officials are warning against recreational use of the Saginaw River after massive rain induced sewage overflows brought E.coli levels to more than three times the level considered safe. Any recreational use of the river may result in health hazards, including gastrointestinal or dermatological illnesses, the Saginaw County Health Department warned Friday.
Detailed information about a new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency strategy for addressing dioxin contamination in the Saginaw Bay watershed is expected at a community meeting in Saginaw on Wednesday evening.
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