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.
The Michigan Department of Community Health confirmed a second probably case of swine flu in a 34-year-old Ottawa county woman. In addition, Ingham county health authorities say they are investigating “several” cases of suspicious illnesses they believe might be swine flu, say a report in the Lansing State Journal.
Two of the suspected cases in Ingham county concern Chief Medical Officer Dean Sienko because those persons have visited Mexico recently. The swine flu outbreak appears to have started in Mexico where it has been blamed on scores of deaths. Almost all the hundreds of U.S. cases have had connections to Mexico.
The Ottawa county woman’s travel history has not been released, but she was hospitalized for the illness.
The outbreak of the flu has health authorities around the nation and the world on alert. The World Health Organization, or WHO, announced yesterday it was raising the threat level of an international pandemic another notch.
President Barack Obama asked Congress to approve $1.5 billion in emergency funds to confront the illness.
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