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.
Within moments of becoming President Barack Obama, incoming Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel dispatched a memo to all federal agencies ordering all “midnight rules” issued by the administration of outgoing Republican President George W. Bush to be frozen pending a review by the new administration.
This move successfully blocks such last-minute controversial rules as the provider conscience rule and a move to allow visitors to national parks to carry weapons. The conscience rule would have provided health care providers working for places receiving federal funds to decline to perform medical procedures they found morally objectionable. Pro-choice advocates had raised concerns because the new rules would allow pharmacists to decline to fill birth control prescriptions as well as allow doctors not to discuss abortion as an options for unwanted pregnancies.
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