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 childhood disease once thought to be exceedingly rare is making a big come back in Washtenaw county, the Ann Arbor News reports.
Pertussis, commonly called Whooping Cough for the noise if forces those infected to make during coughing episodes, is a preventable illness. There is a vaccine which had helped control the bacterial disease for decades. You can listen to what the coughing episodes with this infection sound like at this Utah Department of Health website.
But now Washtenaw County Health Department Officials say they have identified 94 cases of the disease this year alone. They are worried with students returning to classrooms they could see those numbers skyrocket. Health officials are encouraging people who have had contact with infants to get another dose of the vaccination, the News reports.
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