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 Grand Rapids clinic has apologized to a lesbian couple for a doctor who allegedly criticized their lifestyle instead of giving them medical care.
In June, Ashleigh Haberman and Erica Schaub went to Spectrum Health, an urgent care clinic, for medical care, but they say they got a lecture about gay marriage from the doctor. The couple, who live in Grand Rapids, filed a complaint with Spectrum Health Care and the Grand Rapids Community Relations Commission. The women also received support from the Triangle Foundation, a Detroit-based anti-violence and anti-discrimination group that supports lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals who suffer bias-motivated attacks or discrimination based on their sexuality or gender identity or expression.
Among other things, Triangle Foundation attempted to represent the two women in meetings with Spectrum Health as part of the organization’s work as victim advocates. Triangle was not allowed into meetings between the two women and Spectrum officials, but Spectrum said it was interested in working with Triangle to broaden its training programs on LGBT issues.
In a letter to the couple, released by Triangle Foundation, Spectrum Health has issued an apology and an assurance that the behavior of the offending doctor “has been addressed and that appropriate actions have been taken.”
“We were glad to hear Spectrum Health has taken this incident seriously. Our goal has always been to raise awareness within the health care system so that another couple will not have to experience what Ashleigh and I went through,” Erica Schaub said in a press release revealing the Spectrum letter.
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