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.
Michigan-based DTE Energy has received $84 million in stimulus grant money despite a history of violating federal environmental law. In NEPA Exemptions: The Dirty Dozen List, the Center for Public Integrity reports that despite a pattern of Clean Air Act violations at the company’s coal plants, DTE’s grant-funded “smart grid” activities were granted a categorical [...]
Republican Tim Walberg, like nearly all other Republican legislators or office seekers, has repeatedly claimed that President Obama’s stimulus package was a failure and has not produced any jobs. But as ThinkProgress noted on Friday, Walberg has proof this isn’t true because his own son is employed on a stimulus-funded infrastructure project:
The federal government has followed through on a provision in the stimulus package and helping Detroit’s Big Three automakers to recover by placing a huge order for fuel efficient vehicles for the federal fleet. Automotive News reports:
Money from the federal stimulus package will accelerate a plan to clean up PCB-contaminated New Bedford Harbor in Massachusetts by dredging contaminated soil and shipping it to Michigan, the Boston Globe reports. The additional money will allow a massive “dewatering” facility on the harbor to operate continuously eight months a year, instead of the 40-45 [...]
We need your help eyeballing the stimulus bill. Michigan Messenger reporters have started digging through the lists of Michigan public works projects proposed for President Obama’s stimulus bill looking for projects that are not needed, misguided, wasteful or environmentally unfriendly. We found the “railroad to nowhere” project, brought scrutiny to the $10 million twice rejected [...]
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