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 beekeepers say an initiative to rid the state of an invasive species could hurt their business, according to a report by the Associated Press.
A virus which causes captive bred crickets to flip onto their backs and die from paralysis has jumped across the Atlantic ocean, decimating at least one Michigan cricket breeding operation, reports the Kalamazoo Gazette. Top Hat Crickets, located in Portage, has been forced to shut down operations and lay off all 30 of its employees [...]
A U.S. Dept. of Agriculture program that pays up to $45 per ton to companies that bring wood waste to energy facilities could end up hurting the businesses that use wood waste to make products such as particle board and furniture, the Washington Post reports. Though many renewable materials can be converted into energy, very [...]
BAY CITY — A regulatory loophole means Great Lakes fish that may contain potentially dangerous levels of cancer causing dioxin are being sold to consumers without warning.
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