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.
Emergent Biosolutions has announced that the federal government has extended a contract with the company to continue to produce anthrax vaccines.
Emergent, which is based in Rockville MD, makes the vaccine in a Lansing bio-facility. The facility used to belong to the state of Michigan but was privatized by former Gov. John Engler.
The contract extension is worth $101 million, reports the Lansing State Journal. Under the agreement, the facility will create 3.42 million more doses of the vaccine. The previous contract had Emergent create 14.5 million doses. The extension production will be used to beef up the nation’s stockpile of vaccine.
Emergent’s vaccine, BioThrax, is the only federally approved anthrax vaccine.
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