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.
DTE Energy (NYSE:DTE) has been awarded an $83 million stimulus grant by the U.S. Department of Energy‘s Smart Grid Investment Program to accelerate installation of electronic power meters that allow the company to remotely monitor residential power use and respond more quickly to outages. DTE Energy Chairman and CEO Anthony Earley said that the company’s [...]
Wackenhut, the private security company whose ArmorGroup employees were recently caught partying and neglecting security at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, is also responsible for guarding many nuclear facilities in the United States including Michigan’s Palisades power plant near South Haven. For several years, government oversight bodies, labor groups and whistleblowers have warned that the company’s lax behavior at nuclear plants endangers public safety.
Last summer a Chinese-made ECKO brand cheese grater set off radiation sensors at a Flint scrap yard and state regulators were stumped as to how radioactive cobalt-60 had made its way into the kitchen tool. It turns out the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Department of Energy have encouraged the recycling of radioactive metals for [...]
Republican Congressman Vern Ehlers of Grand Rapids is among the many supporters of President-elect Obama’s pick of Nobel prize-winning physicist and Lawrence Livermore Laboratory administrator, Steven Chu, to head the Dept. of Energy. Ehlers, who is the first physicist elected to Congress and who holds a doctoral degree in nuclear physics from University of California [...]
Michigan State University has won a $550 million dollar grant from the Department of Energy to create an updated particle acceleration study program. MSU beat out Argonne National Laboratory for the grant, which is expected to create $1 billion in economic growth and $187 million in tax revenues over the next 20 years, as well [...]
AP reports that President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Steven Chu to be his secretary of energy, a position that Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm was apparently under consideration for. Chu’s background:
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