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.
Lawmakers will vote Wednesday on legislation to allow Michigan to proceed with plans to develop the New International Trade Crossing between Detroit and Windsor.
Michigan’s largest business organization has announced support for the New International Trade Crossing — a new publicly-owned but privately-financed and built bridge that would connect Detroit and Windsor south of the Ambassador Bridge.
In a speech to the Detroit Regional Chamber’s Mackinac public policy conference on Wednesday Gov. Rick Snyder called on the legislature to approve bills allowing the state to begin work with Canada on a new public crossing between Detroit and Windsor.
Canada has offered to finance the Michigan side of a new publicly-owned bridge to connect Detroit and Windsor but lawmakers, under heavy pressure from Matty Maroun who owns the Ambassador Bridge, blocked the plan this week. The state Senate’s move to adjourn without voting on the project has delayed approval of the Detroit River International [...]
As the Legislature prepares to vote on a bill authorizing the construction of a new publicly owned bridge to connect Detroit and Windsor the Detroit Free Press takes a look at the massive campaign contributions made by Manuel “Matty” Moroun, the billionaire owner of the Ambassador Bridge which is currently the only bridge connecting the [...]
Canada has offered $550 million to cover the costs of construction on the Michigan side of a new public bridge that would link the countries. The Detroit River International Crossing would connect southwest Detroit’s Delray neighborhood with the Sandwich district in Windsor, and would directly link expressways on both sides of the border. Construction costs [...]
The Detroit River International Cross project is one political trestle closer to reality after Canadian officials today approved moving forward on a second international bridge connecting Detroit to Windsor. Transport Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and the Windsor Port Authority have given the project their green seal of approval, ruling that the project would not [...]
DETROIT — A proposal to build a new railroad tunnel linking Michigan with Canada is making waves in a part of the city already grappling with the abandoned Michigan Central Station, the long-abandoned towering railroad station Detroit officials want torn down, historic preservations want to save and others see as a potential development opportunity and possible stop on an international high-speed rail line.
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