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.
President Barack Obama is widely expected to sign an executive order today which undoes the previous Bush administration policy and earlier executive order limiting embryonic stem cell research.
Former President George W. Bush established a policy in August 2001 limiting the use of embryonic stem cells to a small range already in use at that time by restricting federal funding for research to those cell lines in which embryos had been destroyed prior to the implementation of the policy, had only been acquired from reproductive processes and through donations without any financial incentives. (Policy at the link provided is expected to change at the National Institute of Health Web site once the executive order is signed.) Bush had also signed an executive order in June 2007 which allowed the expansion of available embryonic stem cell lines, but only under a narrow “ethical” framework.
Michigan may benefit from an expansion of stem cell research using embryonic cells; the state’s voters approved embryonic stem cell research with the passage of Proposition 2 in November last year. University of Michigan’s Center for Stem Cell Biology is one of the research facilities which is expected to begin wider work after Obama’s executive order is signed.
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