Environmental Groups Call for Public Comment on Dangers of Fracking

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, September 22, 2011 Contact: Nic Clark, 517-203-0754 House Subcommittee has not allowed citizens to give input during hearings LANSING – While the Michigan House Natural Gas Subcommittee held a third public hearing today to discuss a dangerous natural-gas extraction process known as fracking, one thing was once again missing from the…

Moving the Goalposts

A month ago we examined how Michigan was performing under the tutelage of Gov. Rick Snyder. As it turned out, Michigan was performing poorly, very poorly. Gov. Snyder’s most prized metrics – jobs and value-for-money government – were both showing negative trends on the Governor’s own MiDashboard; that is, both unemployment and the cost of…