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 new report shows that the introduction of quagga mussels, an invasive species that entered the Great Lakes in the ballast tanks of ships, is rapidly killing off one of the key species in the food chain in the Great Lakes:
Scientists with the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor said today a decade of observation has documented a 96% dropoff for the creature known as diporeia.
Lake Michigan’s population of quagga mussels has exploded during the same period. It’s believed that the two species compete for food — and diporeia is losing.
Diporeia are a small, shrimp-like species that is a major food source for many species of fish. This could potentially disrupt the entire food chain in the Great Lakes.
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