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.
A Canadian company’s plan to put 700 wind turbines in the water off the eastern shore of Lakes St. Clair and Erie is causing concern among boaters and among residents of the wealthy neighborhoods on the Michigan side of the water, the Detroit Free Press reports. In 2008 Canada lifted its ban on offshore wind [...]
The first public presentation of a plan to build as many as 200 windmills in a 100 square mile stretch of Lake Michigan off the coast of Ludington generated numerous concerns among locals this week. The Ludington Daily News reports that representatives of Havgul Energy and Scandia Wind told locals that the wind turbines would [...]
The City of Detroit in partnership with the Detroit based nonprofit NextEnergy, an alternative energy research group, have placed a bid to get a federal Department of Energy wind turbine testing plant built in the city, according to a Detroit Free Press report. While the testing plant will be mainly for research, if the city [...]
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