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.
An outbreak of the sexually transmitted bacterial infection syphilis continues to claim more patients, the Genessee County Health Department confirmed in an interview. In August with the number of confirmed cases at 70, GCHD spokesman Mark Valacak told Michigan Messenger the outbreak was waning.
The largest outbreak of syphilis in Genesee County in years is beginning to wane, officials say.
Last week’s revelation by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control that one-quarter of teen-age girls have at least one sexually transmitted disease came as no surprise to some southeast Michigan health providers, who say such an epidemic is the fruit of a widespread failure to teach teens about sex. The study, released last Tuesday at [...]
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