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.
More that 19 percent of the trash sent to Michigan landfills in 2008 came from Canada, according to the state’s annual solid waste report. Overall more than 30 percent of landfill waste was imported from out of state. Michigan’s own use of landfills decreased by 3 percent.
“The data suggests that Michigan is disposing of less waste, but it does not tell us why that is occurring,” Department of Environmental Quality Director Steven E. Chester said in a statement released with the report. “At the same time, imported trash continues to utilize more and more of our landfill space and that must change.”
Last month Tom Horton, regional spokesman for Waste Management, told Michigan Messenger that the economic downturn was responsible for diminished use of landfills in Michigan.
“What most people are dealing with is reduction in level of business,” Horton said, “and there is a direct correspondence with amount of business and amount of waste production.”
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