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.
Upper Peninsula lawmakers are railing against a ballot measure to create standards for uranium mining, claiming that no uranium ore has been discovered in Michigan. However, a Canadian uranium mining company says it’s found uranium in the U.P., scientists have warned that its uranium exploration could harm groundwater, and the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department is warning that residential wells in several counties already have elevated levels of the radioactive metal.
A ballot measure that would restrict mining “under the clever guise of protecting water,” is actually “an attack by special interests on the U.P. and its people, heritage, and economic future,” according to a statement released this week by a bipartisan group of state lawmakers from the Upper Peninsula. In lengthy and harshly worded statement, [...]
Two Native American communities in the Upper Peninsula will see infrastructure upgrades to drinking- and waste-water systems. Federal stimulus funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will benefit the Hannahville Indian Community of Potawatomie Indians near Escanaba and the Bay Mills Indian Community near Sault Ste. Marie. The Hannahville community will see $22,920 in [...]
As part of the federal stimulus legislation approved earlier this year, six health centers in northern Michigan will receive a combined $1.3 million, according to U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak.
Rio Tinto, the global mining company which planned a controversial nickel sulfide mine in the Upper Peninsula northwest of Marquette, announced today that it will defer development of the same mine until market conditions improve.
A recent economic forecast for northern Michigan listed mining jobs as one of the potential bright spots in the economy. But the recent economic shakeup has slowed global demand for metals, and Rio Tinto, the company that is trying to develop a nickel and copper mine in Michigan, has stated that the slowdown has caused [...]
Not fit for wrapping fish, says this reader
Cameco Corp., the Canadian uranium company that is partnered with Bitterroot Resources Ltd. and Trans Superior Resources Inc. to explore for uranium in Michigan’s western Upper Peninsula, is negotiating with China to supply uranium for power plants. Desperate for energy and struggling with air pollution from coal-fired power plants, China plans to build 14 new [...]
A desire to be “as thorough as humanly possible” and “fully transparent” moved the director of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to postpone a decision on whether to lease 120 acres of public land in northwest Marquette County to the Kennecott Minerals Company. The move was a welcome surprise to mine opponents. “There is [...]
A coalition of groups has filed legal appeals against the state agency that granted a permit for a controversial nickel and copper mine in the Upper Peninsula. The National Wildlife Federation, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Huron Mountain Club and Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve filed an administrative appeal with the state and a civil suit in [...]
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