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.
Automotive News reports that GM has received the first installment of bailout funds from the Treasury, but Chrysler is still finalizing their paperwork to receive those funds:
General Motors on Wednesday received the first $4 billion in emergency loans that the federal government has promised the automaker.
Both GM and Chrysler had been scheduled to receive on Monday, Dec. 29, $4 billion from a total of $17.4 billion in federal loans the Bush administration offered to extend after the companies warned they are close to running out of cash…
Chrysler said it remained in talks with the U.S. Treasury to finalize its own $4 billion loan agreement and expected to receive its share of the funding soon.
“The discussions relating to Chrysler LLC have been positive and productive and we look forward to finalizing the details of our financial assistance in the immediate future,” Chrysler spokeswoman Shawn Morgan said in a statement.
The two companies are slated to receive a total of $17.4 billion in funds from the TARP program in the next couple months.
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