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.
The controversy over Rep. John Conyers sponsoring a bad piece of legislation and the resulting criticism from Larry Lessig continues apace. Lessig has replied to my commentary on the matter and denies that he is accusing Conyers of anything illegal or even unethical by pointing to campaign contributions given to the legislator by publishing companies. [...]
Larry Lessig, a legal scholar and the founder of Change Congress, and Michael Eisen, a prominent professor of genetics, have a scathing article at the Huffington Post accusing Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) of selling out the public to the interests of private publishers of scientific journals. Writing about a law introduced by Conyers, they state:
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health have announced the discovery of a natural antibody that prevents HIV, the virus believed to cause AIDS, from infecting human beings.
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