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 new survey by the Kaiser Foundation finds that the number of people needing Medicaid — and the corresponding jump in Medicaid spending — went up significantly in the last year as unemployment continues at very high levels in most states and nationally.
Nationally, state Medicaid spending went up 8.8 percent from FY 2010 to FY 2011, a sizable difference between the actual jump and the predicted jump of 6.3 percent. In Michigan, nearly 2 million people — almost 20% of the population — rely on Medicaid for their health care.
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