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.
New regulations being considered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency concerning coal ash could have a significant impact on those companies that produce electric power for Michigan residents, especially DTE Energy and CMS Energy, which owns Consumers Energy.
Michigan’s solid waste program is funded by a 21 cents per ton dumping fee at landfills. Between recycling and the economic recession Michigan landfills took in 5 million fewer cubic yards of trash last year. This means that unless a new method of funding is established this year, the state will be unable to inspect [...]
State Rep. Dan Scripps (D-Leland) has introduced a bill that would raise money for recycling programs by establishing a $7.50 per ton fee for solid waste disposal. Michigan’s current 21 cents per ton fee on solid waste dumped in land fills or burned in incinerators, is among the lowest such fees in the region, making [...]
DETROIT — City Councilwoman Monica Conyers has been identified in an FBI bribery probe as “Council Member A,” the city official investigators say received more than $6,000 in cash bribes in exchange for a deciding vote that approved a $1.2 billion sewage disposal contract with the waste management company Synagro Technologies. According to a report [...]
More that 19 percent of the trash sent to Michigan landfills in 2008 came from Canada, according to the state’s annual solid waste report. Overall more than 30 percent of landfill waste was imported from out of state. Michigan’s own use of landfills decreased by 3 percent. “The data suggests that Michigan is disposing of [...]
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