Todd Heywood
Glenn Proposes Extending State Right To Work Law To Cops And Firefighters
While Rep. Gary Glenn is not a sponsor of the transvaginal ultrasound bill with his two other unholy trinity members, he is busy. He has introduced legislation to expand the state's right to work law – legislation that allows folks to benefit from [...]
Road Funding Ballot Language Approved
As the last legislature was putting the dust covers on the furniture and computers at the end of the lame duck session, they attempted to address the state's crumbling roads. A proposal to do that with gasoline taxes – which was supported by former [...]
Significant Studies From CROI 2015
The International Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) wrapped up in Seattle last Friday. The HIV related conference made headlines with results of several studies. Here's a wrap up of the most significant ones: PROUD (UK) [...]
The Moment Of Awe: Arachnids, Reptiles, Amphibians Key To Helping People
LANSING – A little boy – about 8 years old – stood before him, a mason jar full of coins. The child was over the moon excited as he announced "I get a hamster today!" That moment says Michael Borchard, 43, was an "awe moment," and exemplifies why [...]
Government Small Enough To Insert In Your Vagina
The party of "smaller government" is living up to those promises. That damned government and all its regulations are hurting freedom, you know? So shrinking government and eliminating burdensome regulations like requiring employees working in food [...]
While State GOP Tries To Stop Abortions, They Are Also Trying to Stop Gay Adoptions
While the GOP is busy making it harder – if not impossible – for a woman to get an abortion, they're also in the process of allowing adoption programs to deny adoptions to otherwise qualified parents because of "sincerely held religious beliefs." [...]
BREAKING: State House Committee Tells Kids Awaiting Placement Their Needs Don't Matter
LANSING – In a series of party line votes Wednesday morning, Republicans on the House Families, Children and Seniors Committee told kids waiting in the state's adoption line that religious beliefs of adoption agencies are more important than the [...]
Political Hors D'ouevres: Jase Bolger, Chris Ward, Ronna Romney McDaniel
Chris Ward Fatal Blow to Michigan Religious Freedom Restoration Act? Since last year, when former Speaker of the House Jase Bolger, R-Marshall, introduced the "Michigan Religious Freedom Restoration Act," opponents have argued that, if the [...]
San Francisco Doctors Report Two Hepatitis C Infections Among PrEP Users
Doctors at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco have reported that two previously hepatitis C negative men who have sex with men have contracted the virus through sexual activity and while on PrEP. The news was reported in the Feb. 19 edition of [...]
Closet, Hollywood Gossip Collide In Riverwalk Theatre Production
Mitchell (Blake Bowen) contemplates the meaning of love while in bed with Alex (Michael Boxleitner) in The Little Dog Laughed. Bowen Boxleitner: Alex (Michael Boxleitner) tries to understand how he can have feelings for up and coming actor Mitchell [...]
Is This The Beginning Of The End For Conversion Therapy?
In early February, a state court judge in New Jersey struck a blow to the defense in a case involving so called conversion therapy — counseling designed, supporters say, to change a person from homosexual to heterosexual — by ruling such groups were [...]
Syphilis In The News
In 2013, the CDC reported that U.S. cases of syphilis had increased 10 percent. Three quarters of those cases were among men who have sex with men (MSM) — which directly accounted for the significant increase in new cases of the old disease. In two [...]