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.
In a major breakthrough that would have been impossible two years ago, researchers from the University of Michigan have created the first embryonic stem cell line developed in this state. The find was to be announced at this weekend’s World Stem Cell Summit in Detroit. The Detroit Free Press reports:
As we enter the home stretch for the Aug. 3 primaries political scientists are talking about their findings related to an “informed” citizenry. American democracy is based on the concept that a well informed voting public will make the correct decisions about who to elect to office. But studies over the last decade or so [...]
When I read in a U-M economic forecast compiled by the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics that we’re not in a recession, just experiencing slowing in economic growth, I wanted to know the specifics. So I read on until it explained quite plainly what’s holding us back from falling off the edge into a good [...]
Saving lives is not exactly what I think of when I’m emptying my wallet to fill my gas tank. But after reading a new report released by the University of Michigan that linked high gas prices to a drastic decrease in people who got killed by motor vehicles, I realized it should be. A lot [...]
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