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.
Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and contender for the GOP nomination for the presidency, says disruptions at two town hall meetings which “got out of contol” were caused by “organized supporters of the Democrats.” Huckabee wrote the observation on his blog, HuckPac.com:
Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop is defending protesters at health care town halls, and implying they could come back against state leaders. On WJR Radio this morning, the Republican from Rochester told Frank Beckmann that the protests were what the founding fathers imagined when they wrote the Declaration of Independence. As quoted by MLive.com:
BAY CITY — The case of Michael S. Holder, complete with a cast that includes an admittedly racially-biased jury, a scorned lover and a life-threatening virus surrounded more by fear than fact is only one example of several prosecutions brought under a 1988 law that experts warn is vague and can lead to vindictive prosecutions.
When 65-year-old Maddie entered the World Medical Relief (WMR) headquarters in Detroit four years ago, she reminded Rita Grezlik, WMR’s president and CEO, of her mother. Maddie was a retired grandmother of three living on a pension of only $900 a month. She was having trouble breathing and walking and she grew tired easily. She [...]
The closing of Tender Care South has caused a new crisis – a shortage of beds. According to Dr. Shannon Wiggins, Medical Director for Tender Care South, “Of the 72 residents that were forced to find new arrangements, 25 remain.” Once notified of their closing on September 27th, Tender Care South was given thirty days [...]
LANSING — After TenderCare South successfully lobbied the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for more time to correct safety violations to prevent being shutdown, today TenderCare South was informed that it failed the inspection that could have kept the facility open. Once the CMS granted a temporary reprieve, TenderCare South under went a [...]
LANSING-It was an “historic” event. People came from as far away as Escanaba and as near as downtown Lansing. There were the young, the elderly, African Americans, Arab Americans, LBGT Americans, union leaders and members, and well, just people. They all descended upon the Michigan Progressive Policy Summit, a first of its kind gathering of [...]
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