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.
From the county that gave us the HIV-as-terrorism case comes another salacious story of a sexually transmitted infection. This time incoming assistant Macomb County Executive Damian Kassab has tendered his resignation before he even started the job, reports Detroit TV station WXYZ.
The reason? Kelly Dobek with whom Kassab had an affair is suing him alleging he infected her with herpes.
Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith is under fire for an obscenity-laced voicemail he left Saturday for a Republican candidate for the Macomb County Commission. The call from Smith was prompted after Republican James Perna and the Macomb County Republican Party sent out a mailer saying the Smith family has relied on public sector employment. Perna [...]
Mark Peterson, a director and spokesperson for the Michigan Positive Action Coalition, says Monday’s Macomb County Circuit Court Judge Peter Maceroni’s failure to reject a terrorism charge against an HIV-positive man is “troubling.” “It keeps us in limbo,” says Peterson. “It’s troubling because this case being out there that by just having the virus we [...]
MT. CLEMENS — Daniel Allen, the 44-year-old Clinton Township man facing unprecedented bio-terrorism charges, will have to wait a while longer before he finds out if that charge will be rejected by the courts.
A hearing on motions from groups asking a Macomb County Circuit Court to dismiss bio-terrorism charges against a 44-year-old HIV-positive man has been delayed. The hearing was scheduled before Macomb Circuit Court Judge Peter Maceroni on Monday, but was postponed until May 10 to allow the prosecution time to respond to amicus briefs filed by [...]
In a friend of the court filing in Macomb County Circuit Court, the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan has asked that bio-terrorism charges against an HIV-positive man be dismissed. The ACLU filed the brief in the case of Daniel Allen, a 44-year-old Clinton Township man. Allen was arrested in October of 2009 following a [...]
From terrorism to discrimination to privacy issues, HIV-related issues made headlines in Michigan in 2009.
1. HIV-as-terrorism case in Macomb County
Perhaps the most watched, and outrageous, HIV related story of 2009 is the situation facing Daniel Allen, a 44-year-old Clinton Township resident who has been charged by Macomb County prosecutors under state terrorism laws.
The HIV-as-terrorism case involving 44-year-old Daniel Allen of Clinton Township is now the subject of at least two cyber-protests. Allen was charged with terrorism in Macomb County because he allegedly bit a neighbor during a fight in October. The prosecutor, upon learning Allen was HIV-positive, announced he would seek additional charges from the original assault [...]
The HIV-as-terrorism case is not the only potentially explosive legal proceeding going on for Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith. In another case, the tables are being turned on Smith as he finds himself accused of violating the law by engaging in retaliation against a defendant who publicly blew the whistle on alleged police and prosecutorial [...]
Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith is so incensed at the Macomb County Board of Commissioners over cuts to his office made necessary by a county budget deficit of nearly $16 million that he is considering filing a lawsuit against his own county to have those cuts overturned. The Detroit News reports:
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