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.
LANSING — Terri Lynn Land, the Michigan secretary of state who last month announced she would not run for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, said she dropped out of the race because she did not have the experience haggling with the legislature, a skill that’s critical for the job. In an interview with The Macomb Daily, [...]
The U.S. House has approved an appropriations bill that designates $475 million for efforts to clean up pollution and stop invasive species in the Great Lakes. The Detroit News reports that the bill includes:
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 [...]
Physicist and Republican Rep. Vern Ehlers walked to the International Conference on Peak Oil and Climate Change in Grand Rapids on Friday and called for more understanding of the laws of thermodynamics. Ehlers, who lives near Calvin College where the energy-conscious crowd was gathered, said that walking rather than driving whenever possible is one way [...]
“If anyone would try to divert water, I would suspect we’d call up the militia and take up arms,” said Rep. Vern Ehlers of Grand Rapids, “We feel that serious about it.” Congressman Ehlers’ comments came at a House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee hearing on the 21st Century Water Act of 2007 held on Thursday. [...]
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