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 war on smoking continues and a new front is opening in Michigan’s upper peninsula. There, officials from the Public Health Delta-Menominee Counties (PHDM) are using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) money to snuff out smoking in private apartment units, reports the Escanaba Daily Press.
The program focuses on multiple unit housing locations, such as apartment buildings. To push that conversation health officials sponsored a visit by James Bergman, co-director of the Center for Social Gerontology. Bergman is also the director of Smoke-free Environmental Law Projects, based in Lansing.
“We are looking to implement between 80 to 90 percent of all housing facilities being smoke-free and adopting smoke-free policies,” said Bergman.
Bergman said 20 percent of adults are smokers, while 10 percent of adults over 65 are smokers. Those numbers, he says, support a move towards smoke-free apartments.
“Back about six years ago in 2004, you could not find any smoke-free apartments in the Upper Peninsula, while today there are literally thousands of smoke-free units available across the state,” said Bergman.
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