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11/14/11--08:38: Schuette fights important mercury regulations (chan 2183588)

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.


11/14/11--11:33: Occupy Detroit prepares office space, hotel, warehouse (chan 2183588)

Members of Occupy Detroit have worked with local businesses to secure a multi-story office building, a store front for sign-making, a warehouse, and a renovated 50-unit hotel that will serve as housing for protesters. Occupy Detroit spokesperson Lee Gaddis said the group plans to pack up the Grand Circus Park encampment and move into donated [...]


11/15/11--04:22: Granholm: Tax breaks, wage concessions don’t help attract business (chan 2183588)

Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm appeared on CNN with Fareed Zakaria recently and pointed out that during her administration, all the tax breaks and wage concessions offered to businesses didn’t keep them from leaving for other countries.


11/15/11--04:33: TransCanada agrees to reroute Keystone pipeline (chan 2183588)

TransCanada, owners of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, have agreed to reroute the pipeline to avoid the Nebraska Sandhills, a particularly sensitive ecosystem. The Los Angeles Times reports: Sen. Mike Flood, speaker of the Nebraska Legislature, announced on the floor that TransCanada Corp. would move the pipeline to another area of the state. Sources in [...]


11/15/11--04:56: Maddow on the Ford Field prayer rally (chan 2183588)

Rachel Maddow had a segment about last weekend’s prayer rally at Ford Field that includes video footage of organizer Lou Engle saying more crazy and extremist things. Video below the fold. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy


11/15/11--08:05: Class action lawsuit filed against MERS over unpaid taxes (chan 2183588)

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.


11/15/11--10:00: House says it will delay health exchange creation bills (chan 2183588)

The House Republican leadership says it will delay approving the creation of a statewide health insurance exchange, in part to await the outcome of a U.S. Supreme Court hearing on the constitutionality of the health care reform law which mandates the creation of the exchanges. Rep. Mike Shirkey (R-Clark Lake) tells the Jackson Citizen Patriot, [...]


11/15/11--11:50: Enbridge stops cleanup work (chan 2183588)

Enbridge, the company that spilled at least 800,000 gallons of tar sands crude into the Kalamazoo River system last year, has announced that it is suspending efforts to scrape the remaining submerged oil from the river bottom. UPI reports that the company said it made a “seasonal decision” to stop cleanup for the rest of [...]


11/16/11--05:00: Colorado-based abstinence program provided false and misleading information to Michigan students (chan 2183588)

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. The program has already come under fire for being booked and presented in probable violation of Michigan laws related to sex-education programming. A Michigan Messenger investigation [...]


11/16/11--12:34: The Michigan Messenger going forward (chan 2183588)

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 [...]