Todd Heywood
Dem. AG Race: #MeToo Fisticuffs Days Before Convention
Nassar Survivors Endorse Former U.S. Attorney Miles, Nessel Camp Swings Back LANSING — Rolling into the final hours of what has devolved into a contentious brawl between former U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles and civil rights attorney Dana Nessel for [...]
MI Dem AG Race: Miles Campaign Still Quiet on Use of Republican Research
BTL EDITORIAL The campaign of Democratic Attorney General candidate Patrick Miles used Republican research to attack his Democratic opponent Dana Nessel. That's a fact and we have the evidence to back it up. It's also unprecedented. The research [...]
MI Dem AG Race: Miles Uses GOP Dirt Against Opponent Nessel
NEWS ANALYSIS The Democratic candidate for Attorney General Patrick Miles used a Republican report that demonizes his Democratic opponent Dana Nessel. In distributing the research from the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) to media, [...]
Under Fire: Popular Hookup App Shared HIV-Related Information, Personal Data with Third Party
The popular hookup and dating app Grindr is under fire for sharing users' disclosed HIV status and most recent testing data combined with identifiable information about users with two third party vendors. The company says it has suspended the [...]
Mixed bag in HIV cases
Federal statistics report a 14.8 percent decline in HIV cases between 2008 and 2015, but 25- to 34-year-olds saw a nearly 45 percent increase in new cases New data released by the CDC last month is a mixed blessing as well. On the one hand, new [...]
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed Challenges Tradition as Gubernatorial Candidate
He's an outsider with no formal elective office experience, but Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is the upstart candidate in the Democratic primary for governor. He is rattling the traditionalism of the party and its selection process, but he says he's doing it [...]
White Nationalist Event Turns Violent at MSU
Protests over a speech by Richard Spencer at Michigan State University turned violent Monday night as dozens of supporters clashed with hundreds of anti-racist protesters. Spencer is the head of the white supremacy group the National Policy [...]
White Nationalist Leader Posts Photo of Himself with Vice President Mike Pence
White nationalist leader and Michigan attorney Kyle Bristow posted an image of himself with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Twitter Thursday morning. The image appears to have been taken about a decade ago when Bristow was leading the Young [...]
MSU Investigating Allegations of Sexual Harassment Against Sue Carter
Sue Carter, an out lesbian professor at Michigan State University is being investigated by the Office of Institutional Equity over allegations of sexual harassment. Carter resigned from the MSU Athletic Council for the NCAA last week, in the wake of [...]
A Light at the End of the Tunnel'
Light at the End of the Tunnel {ITAL With effective biomedical interventions, but no cure, Michigan leaders believe the end of HIV could come as soon as in a decade. The question: Is the infrastructure in place to remove barriers and finance the [...]
From the Frontlines: Early Intervention Services
Behind her, hanging on the wall of her small office in south Lansing, are a serious of information posters. One is Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs, another is a pull from one of the HIV publications showing all the anti-HIV drugs currently approved in [...]
The Political Perils of HIV Policy
Scientists and public health officials are in agreement. Treatment options and prevention drugs combined with testing could bring an end to the HIV epidemic in the U.S. in general and Michigan specifically within the decade. "Other things [diseases] [...]