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.
An emergency session of the Florida Parole Commission Wednesday resulted in the conditional medical release of 27-year-old Betsie Gallardo, reports Bil Browning at Bilerico.
Gallardo was arrested in 2009 and found guilty of assaulting a police officer. She was sentenced to five years in prison. The charges were brought because Gallardo is HIV-positive, and depending on which source you turn to, either bit an officer or spit at the officer.
But in 2010, shortly after beginning her stay in the Florida prison system, she was diagnosed with stage four gall bladder cancer. That cancer spread to her intestines, causing a massive tumor which blocked her intestines and made eating or drinking impossible. Gallardo’s mother Jessica Bussert drove from Indiana to be with her dying daughter, and found that prison medical officials had declined to administer intravenous nutrition.
On Christmas Eve, several Florida lawmakers wrote a letter to the Parole Commission seeking Gallardo’s release.
After Bussert went public, the prison system transfered Gallardo to a hospital in Miami. She was put on IV nutrition and has gained eight pounds, reports Bussert.
On Tuesday evening, Bussert attended the inaugural ball of incoming Gov. Rick Scott. She plead her daughter’s case to the new governor.
The vote to release Gallardo was two to one. As a result, she will be released to the Miami Hospice and will be under house arrest. She will be allowed to leave the facility only to attend church and to go to medical appointments.
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