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.
A Mona Shores teenager is crying foul after administrators in the West Michigan school invalidated the vote of his peers in a race for homecoming king. Oakleigh Reed says he wanted to run for the position because he was as qualified as any other person running. School officials defend their decision, reports NBC 25:
The Obama administration on Tuesday released the nation’s first National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS). That strategy includes a call for state lawmakers to pass legislation preventing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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.
In a written opinion dismissing a charge of bio-terrorism against a 45-year-old HIV-positive man, Macomb County Circuit Court Judge Peter Maceroni ruled that the mere fact a person is HIV-positive is not enough to accuse him or her of unlawfully possessing a harmful biological substance.
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 [...]
While the Macomb County Circuit Court has delayed the HIV-as-terrorism case against Daniel Allen until next year, lawmakers and advocacy groups are already moving to address the charges.
LANSING — State lawmakers on Wednesday heard testimony on legislation that would eliminate the current requirement that patients provide written, informed consent to receive an HIV test. While Republican State Sen. Tom George said his bill is meant to “modernize” testing, others say it leaves patients vulnerable. “What someone might call a barrier, another person might call a safeguard,” said fellow GOP lawmaker Bruce Patterson.
LANSING — A letter from the head of Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox’s criminal division exonerating Lansing City Attorney Brigham Smith of any criminal wrongdoing in the public release of an arrested man’s HIV-positive status has activists and political leaders up in arms.
HAMTRAMCK — Despite a spate of recent troubles and controversies over equal rights in this increasingly diverse and divided Wayne County city, the tone at a meeting sponsored by U.S. Rep. John Conyers to discuss hate crimes legislation he has introduced in Congress was mostly conciliatory and cooperative.
LANSING — The man at the center of the HIV disclosure controversy has been told by three separate law enforcement agencies that they can’t take his criminal complaint he wants to file against the city attorney.
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