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.
Betsie Gallardo, the HIV-positive woman serving five years in a Florida prison, has been transferred from the prison infirmary to Kendall Medical Center, reports her mother Jessica Bussert. The transfer was made so Gallardo could begin receiving total parenteral nutrition (TPN) IV treatment.
“Betsie is finally being fed, and thank God for that! She is very weak and thin, and I’m not sure how much longer she could have held on,” Bussert wrote in an email update Thursday morning. “I just saw her last night and I’ll be back later today.”
Gallardo was diagnosed with stage four gall bladder cancer earlier this year, and while she has received treatment while in the prison, the cancer has spread to her intestines. There, the cancer created a tumor which has blocked her intestines making it impossible for her to hold food and water down. However, Bussert says the prison officials were refusing to provide her daughter with TPN.
As a result of the lack of care in prison, Bussert came forward publicly to fight for her daughter’s care. Prison officials started an IV saline line over the holiday weekend, and Bussert was able to spend time with Gallardo. Bussert also was demanding the state of Florida release her daughter on compassionate grounds so she could take her home to die surrounded by family and friends.
On Christmas eve, a group of Florida lawmakers sent a letter to the Parole Commission asking that they consider Gallardo’s case in an emergency session, rather than in their regularly scheduled February session. Officials then announced the commission would review Gallardo’s case on January 5.
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