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 largest outbreak of syphilis in Genesee County in years is beginning to wane, officials say.
The CDC has just released new estimates of the number of people in the nation newly infected with HIV in 2006, and they show an increase of 34 percent. But Midwest AIDS Prevention Project (MAPP) Executive Director Craig Covey says there is no surprise in the increase.
Democrats have stalled on bill requiring birth control coverage Michigan women with health insurance can find themselves paying up to $65 a month for a prescription to prevent an unwanted pregnancy. Meanwhile, their insured male counterparts can pick up a free prescription for Viagra. Michigan is one of 23 states that doesn’t require insurance companies [...]
Finding supports controversial recommendation to vaccinate all women aged 11-26 A teen’s sexual activity doesn’t predict her future risk for HPV, and shouldn’t determine whether she receives the HPV vaccine, according to University of Michigan researchers. The U of M study conducted by C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital’s Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit found that [...]
Misoprostol, a companion drug to RU-486 that is used during medication abortions, is safe when taken orally but could reduce the body’s immune response when used vaginally, according to a study released Monday by researchers at the University of Michigan. Vaginal use of the drug may be responsible for the deaths by rare infection of [...]
A controversial bill that criminalizes the performance of certain abortion procedures and that faces a veto by Gov. Jennifer Granholm remains in the House one week after its passage. Supporters of Senate Bill 776, which passed the House on May 27, suspect the House is deliberately delaying sending it to Granholm. But a spokesman for [...]
[Commentary] And we wonder why Michigan residents hold their state Legislature in such low regard. Late Tuesday night, the Democratic-led House passed Senate Bill 776, a bill banning certain abortion procedures. The bill’s fate had occupied legislators’ time and attention for days, as the right-to-life lobby threatened to withdraw its endorsements from waffling legislators and [...]
[COMMENTARY] You may have read the story from my colleague Alexa Stanard after word began circulating on Thursday that House Speaker Andy Dillon, D-Redford Township, was about to force a vote on Michigan Senate Bill 776. SB 776 prohibits a rarely used, yet medically necessary abortion method and does not provide an exception to protect [...]
Word is House Speaker Andy Dillon, D-Redford Township, will force a vote today on Senate Bill 776. No vote is scheduled on SB 776, but the House remains in session. The symbolic bill will force state legislators to take a stand on certain abortion procedures. Opponents have managed to stave off a vote on the [...]
A symbolic bill designed to force state legislators to take a stand on certain abortion procedures appears to be rearing its head once again this week, about a month after Democratic legislators managed to fend off a vote on the bill. The Lansing-based Citizens for Traditional Values on Monday sent an e-mail alert to its [...]
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