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.
A group of 28 scientists from 22 universities have sent a letter to Secretary of Energy Steven Chu criticizing his picks for a DOE panel that is studying the safety and promise of hydrofracking, saying that the board is heavily tilted toward gas industry interests.
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced $5.9 billion in federal loans to Ford over the next two years to help them develop and build more environmentally friendly cars, a good deal of which will take place at Michigan facilities. A press release from the Department of Energy spelled out the goals and benefits of the [...]
Ford will be the first American automaker to receive what will likely be billions of dollars in loans from the Department of Energy to help them develop and build more environmentally friendly vehicles. MLive reports:
Republican Congressman Vern Ehlers of Grand Rapids is among the many supporters of President-elect Obama’s pick of Nobel prize-winning physicist and Lawrence Livermore Laboratory administrator, Steven Chu, to head the Dept. of Energy. Ehlers, who is the first physicist elected to Congress and who holds a doctoral degree in nuclear physics from University of California [...]
AP reports that President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Steven Chu to be his secretary of energy, a position that Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm was apparently under consideration for. Chu’s background:
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