Todd Heywood
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 [...]
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 [...]
Whitmer: 'Snyder Needs to Declare Public Health Emergency in Opioid Crisis'
Former Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer, who is a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor, is calling on Republican Gov. Rick Snyder to declare a public health emergency related to the ongoing opioid crisis in Michigan. [...]
Chicana activist sees connections between LBGT issues, immigration
Capitol Correspondent LANSING – Claudia Gonzalez remembers vividly walking across the campus of Michigan State University two years ago. The campus was abuzz with football excitement, the Spartans were hosting a home game. That's when she came [...]
Forming a Hate Group
When current Harvard School of Public Health Research Associate Raphael Ezekiel was a professor at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, he became curious about the growth of the racist SS Action Group. That curiosity lead the social psychology [...]
MSU Group listed as Hate Group by Southern Poverty Law Center
EAST LANSING – When the 2006 Hate Group list is released by the Southern Poverty Law Center at the end of April, it will include a recognized Michigan State University student group. The group, Young Americans for Freedom, will be the first [...]
LGBT families lobby state legislature for support
LANSING – With a state house bill introduced to allow second parent adoption in Michigan, LGBT families and allies were out in force last week at the state Capitol to send a message: LGBT families are here and we're not going anywhere. The event, [...]
Architect of national anti-gay amendment says dissolve institution of marriage rather than let gays in
EAST LANSING – In a stunning change of tone in the debate on marriage equality, a leading far right opponent said that the institution of marriage should be dissolved rather than allow homosexuals in. Professor Gerard Bradley, a University of Notre [...]
Guidance: Not Infectious
For the first time since the HIV epidemic began, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has announced that some people living with the virus can attain a state where they pose no risk of transmitting the disease. On Sept. 27, [...]
Farmer's Market Battle
An employee of Country Mill sells apples and apple products like cider at the East Lansing Farmer's Market Sunday. They returned to the market after winning a federal court injunction. They had been banned from the market for discrimination against [...]
Fanning Sounds off on Trump's Transgender Ban
Calling President Donald Trump's directives to ban transgender people from serving in the military "a betrayal" and "unpatriotic," former Secretary of the Army Eric Fanning has added his voice to a growing chorus of current and former military [...]
City Pulse Reporter Assaulted Covering Country Mills Controversy in East Lansing
As a supporter of Country Mill's right to discriminate based on the organization's sincerely held religious beliefs squared off with a supporter of the LGBT community on Sunday at the East Lansing Farmers Market, a City Pulse reporter was assaulted [...]