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 policy directing Michigan health care providers to provide a potentially life saving intervention for people exposed to HIV through consensual or non-consensual sexual activity or drug use has still not been issued by the Michigan Department of Community Health.
The Michigan Department of Community Health issued a letter to local health departments Friday which “strongly encourages” those public bodies to cease using Client Acknowledgment forms that are legally inaccurate.
The owner of a Warren bar is challenging the state’s smoking ban in court.
LANSING — A policy to provide access to people who have been exposed to HIV to anti-retroviral medications has been stalled in the Michigan Department of Community Health’s legal department for months, documents obtained by Michigan Messenger show.
The Michigan Department of Community Health has announced it will advise local health departments using a controversial client acknowledgment form to change them.
Less than 24 hours after a civil rights organization called for state and federal civil rights investigations into the use of controversial “Client Acknowledgment Forms” by local health departments in the state, at least one state agency is taking notice.
LANSING — HIV advocates and legal experts say the state’s local health departments and the Michigan Department of Community Health are using documents which exaggerate the risks of HIV transmission and misstate what Michigan law requires.
LANSING — Interviews and budget documents provided to Michigan Messenger show that a proposal by a Republican lawmaker to eliminate a dedicated health fund in Michigan’s budget would, contrary to his public proclamations, effectively gut HIV programs in the state.
LANSING — A bill submitted by state Rep. Dave Agema (R-Grandville) that would eliminate state funding for HIV prevention and other important health initiatives, is raising alarms in the public health community. Agema has proposed eliminating the Michigan Health Fund Initiative (MHFI) which is a special Michigan Department of Community Health fund created by law [...]
The tension between federal and state laws about marijuana continues to clash in Michigan. A Jackson woman, who is a registered medical marijuana patient has been evicted from a federal housing unit because of the drug despite compliance with state law.
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