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.
Rio Tinto, the global mining company whose subsidiary Kennecott Eagle Minerals has sought to develop a nickel sulfide mine near Marquette, has withdrawn a request to prospect for minerals on public forest land in the western Upper Peninsula, the Lake Superior Mining News reports. On Nov. 6 Rio Tinto notified the Bureau of Land Management [...]
Upper Peninsula lawmakers that oppose a ballot measure to regulate uranium and sulfide mines have failed to recognize that protecting Michigan’s water is essential to maintaining the U.P.’s tourism industry, according to Save the Wild UP, and have instead become “the mouthpiece for pro-mining propaganda.” Earlier this week, Sen. Mike Prusi (D-Ishpeming), Sen. Jason Allen [...]
In a move welcomed by those that oppose uranium exploration in Michigan’s Ottawa National Forest, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced this week that his agency is putting a temporary hold on new uranium mining claims around the Grand Canyon.
Brennain Lloyd of Northwatch News is guest speaker over at Great Lakes Town Hall this week and she is publishing a series on the nuclear issues around Kincardine, Ontario, home of the Bruce Nuclear Generating station — North America’s largest nuclear facility. Northwatch is a regional coalition of environmental and citizen groups in northeastern Ontario [...]
Michigan’s new Upper Peninsula mineral rush is going radioactive. Members of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, the largest federally recognized Indian tribe in Michigan, are already digging in to fight a
The National Forest Service has granted permits for Canada-based Trans Superior Resources Inc. to explore uranium deposits within the Ottawa National Forest in the western Upper Peninsula. In a little-noticed Feb. 15
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