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.
Though expected to reach a decision on whether a group of roughly 2,000 landowners along the Tittabawassee River could be grouped together for a class action suit against Dow Chemical for releasing the dioxin that pollutes their land, the Michigan Supreme Court declined to make a final ruling on the matter and sent the case [...]
In 2002, owners of land along the dioxin-contaminated Tittabawassee River were warned by the state to limit their childrens’ outdoor play because of the health risks associated with chemical contamination that has migrated downstream from Dow Chemical’s Midland facility. This week, six years after those landowners filed a class action case against Dow seeking compensation for property damage, the Michigan Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether the case may proceed as a class action.
Fresh off a listening tour in Michigan last week, officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency laid out three options for the cleanup of dioxin in the Saginaw Bay area — but some of the options may be off the table without support from Gov. Jennifer Granholm.
Michigan Messenger’s recent reporting on dioxin contamination in the watershed downstream from The Dow Chemical Company made MSNBC’s Countdown series, “Still Bushed,” on Wednesday evening. Video can be viewed at this link: ‘Still Bushed!’, MSNBC’s Countdown, Mar. 11, 2009 Michigan Messenger’s coverage on dioxin contamination of the Tittabawassee and Saginaw Rivers can be found at [...]
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.
Dow Chemical’s Midland plant has contaminated the Tittabawassee River floodplain with dioxin — one of the most toxic chemicals known — and property owners in the contaminated zone are seeking damages in a class action suit against the company.
The Michigan Court of Appeals has approved class-action status for a lawsuit brought against the Dow Chemical Co. by residents of the dioxin-contaminated Titabawassee flood plain. “We are happy about the ruling,” said Norm Siegel, attorney for the plaintiffs. Siegel said the class will include about 2,000 people who seek damages associated with the contamination [...]
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