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 Oakland County Commissioner and former mayor of Ferndale was forced to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination during the trial of a medical marijuana patient last week.
Leaders in the fight against HIV in Michigan from as far away as Traverse City packed into a meeting room in Brighton to discuss the formation of the Michigan Coalition of AIDS Advocates, a new HIV policy lobbying group.
Following up on a June surprise, Michigan House Speaker Pro Tem Pam Byrnes on Wednesday announced she had introduced legislation to roll back a 2004 constitutional amendment which bans same-sex marriage in the state.
Hope College officials are sticking by their guns in demanding that Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black can come to campus to speak, but only on the topic of screenwriting. Officials say Black is barred from discussing gay rights, because he is an advocate for them. Black wrote the Oscar winning screenplay for the film “Milk,” [...]
A new advertising campaign by condom company Durex is raising eyebrows, and questions, at Michigan State University about how to have a healthy conversation about safer sex.
The CDC has just released new estimates of the number of people in the nation newly infected with HIV in 2006, and they show an increase of 34 percent. But Midwest AIDS Prevention Project (MAPP) Executive Director Craig Covey says there is no surprise in the increase.
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