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 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced this week that the dioxin cleanup work at West Michigan Park in Saginaw Township is nearing completion. Agency officials required that Dow Chemical pay for cleanup at the park — 15 miles downstream from the company’s Midland plant — where flooding from the Tittabawassee River has deposited dioxin-contaminated sediments. The park had been identified by state officials as a top clean-up priority and designated “time critical” by the EPA after dioxin contamination at levels as high as 5,900 parts per trillion was found there. Federal law requires cleanup of contamination at 1,000 ppt.
Officials said this week that EPA will try to speed the release of its official findings on the threats posed by dioxin — a chemical that has contaminated Michigan’s largest watershed — after decades of being delayed by political pressures.
Chemical company agrees to clean up Saginaw Township park after more than a year of pleas from officials.
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