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.
WASHINGTON — The Democratic push to slash tens of billions of dollars for private insurers who cover Medicare patients has been met on Capitol Hill by something unusual: a relative silence, even from supporters of the program.
In past years, the Democrats’ proposals to cut subsidies to the popular but controversial Medicare Advantage program — which allows seniors to receive their Medicare benefits through private companies — have been greeted with howls of protest from both the insurance industry and conservative lawmakers, who argue that the private marketplace can offer efficiencies and benefits that traditional Medicare doesn’t.
Yet this year, even as the Democrats hope to trim more than $100 billion from the MA program over a decade to help pay for their larger health reform effort, the focus of the critics’ attacks has been largely directed elsewhere.
Read more at Michigan Messenger’s sister site, the Washington Independent.
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