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.
LANSING — State Rep. Kathy Angerer (D-Dundee), chair of the state House Health Policy Committee, and State Rep. Robert Jones (D-Kalamazoo), chair of the House Senior Health, Security and Retirement Committee, will hold a joint hearing Thursday. The hearing will investigate the purchase of nursing homes by private equity firms.
The issue came to light recently with the announcement that Carlyle Group will purchase Manor Care. Manor Care nursing homes in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Illinois have racked up hundreds of dangerous care violations.
Angerer and others worry Carlyle will cut medical care to increase profit.
The hearing will be from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, in room 352, House Appropriations, third floor, state capitol building.
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