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.
General Motors (NYSE:GM) announced this afternoon the closure of facilities by the end of the first quarter in 2009, amounting to 30% of total U.S. production.
The move will eliminate 250,000 vehicles from production; normal production volume for the quarter is normally 750,000 vehicles. Sites expected to take the brunt of the cuts are those in Ft. Wayne, Ind., Pontiac and Flint, Mich., as well as sites in Kansas, Canada and Mexico, although 21 plants in total are expected to shutdown for the entire month of January.
Honda (NYSE:HMC) also announced another round of production cuts as well, planning on elimination of 119,000 vehicles from 1Q2009 production. The cuts lower overall production volume over the previous year by 12%.
(Disclosure: members of the author’s family are employed by vendors to the Big Three.)
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