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 — Facing a significant increase in reported cases of syphilis infections, the Ingham County Health Department says it’s in the midst of an outbreak of the sexually transmitted bacterial infection. The county is not alone and local health officials across the state are on the lookout for signs of a worsening situation.
KALAMAZOO — Voters in the Grand Rapids area and in Kalamazoo County will go to the polls on Tuesday to vote on two separate public transportation measures that would fund a new bus rapid transit line in one case and stave off looming cuts to existing bus service in the other.
On the heels of Attorney General Mike Cox’s controversial awarding of foreclosure settlement money to two Grand Rapids-area park improvement projects, Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer announced today that he wants to find out how Cox has awarded other settlement funds in the past. Brewer made the announcement this morning that he would use [...]
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will be stumping in Macomb and Kent counties Wednesday, angling hard to set himself up for the general election in the state come November. Obama will hold an invitation-only town hall meeting with workers at Macomb Community College in the morning, before driving to an open rally in Grand Rapids’ [...]
[COMMENTARY] A Grand Rapids area dermatologist, it was revealed late last year, may have exposed as many as 13,000 people to HIV and Hepatitis B and C because of his alleged failure to properly sterilize medical equipment. The Kent County Health Department sent out 13,000 letters to patients of Dr. Robert Stokes. The letters encouraged [...]
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