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.
Shortly after the police raid of Eagle Rock encampment yesterday, the Kennecott mining company bulldozed the site where members of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and others have been protesting a nickel sulfide mine that the company plans to develop on state land. In a story published by Indian Country Today, Greg Peterson reports:
Upper Peninsula lawmakers that oppose a ballot measure to regulate uranium and sulfide mines have failed to recognize that protecting Michigan’s water is essential to maintaining the U.P.’s tourism industry, according to Save the Wild UP, and have instead become “the mouthpiece for pro-mining propaganda.” Earlier this week, Sen. Mike Prusi (D-Ishpeming), Sen. Jason Allen [...]
AP reports that an Ingham County judge has ruled that the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality acted properly in granting an air permit for the Kennecott Eagle Minerals Co.’s planned nickel sulfide mine near Marquette.
A high profile state employee has left his job to work for Rio Tinto, the global mining company that is planning a controversial nickel sulfide mine in the Upper Peninsula through its subsidiary Kennecott Eagle Minerals Co. Matt Johnson, Gov. Granholm’s Upper Peninsula representative since 2003, will now serve as manager of governmental and community [...]
Man beaten near site of planned sulfide mine The 60-year old husband of a prominent Upper Peninsula anti-mining activist was reportedly knocked unconscious and left outside in the freezing rain by three men who first asked if he was a mine opponent. Cynthia Pryor, executive director of Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve, told Michigan Messenger that [...]
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