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.
Auto industry analysts are predicting another terrible month of sales for December, perhaps low enough to reach the worst sales the industry has seen in 26 years:
The auto information site Edmunds.com predicts an annual sales rate of 9.8 million for December, while the market research firm J.D. Power and Associates expects 10 million. The rate, which fell to 10.3 million in November, has not fallen below 10 million since August 1982.
“We thought the bottom was October. Then we thought it was November. It seemed like maybe it’s December, but we’re not so sure anymore,” said Jesse Toprak, Edmunds.com’s executive director of industry analysis.Many analysts are not publishing forecasts until later this week. But Edmunds.com and J.D. Power forecast sales decreases of between 37 and 38.4 percent. The declines would be the industry’s 18th in the past 19 months.
The official figures are due to be released on January 5. The final figures for the year will almost certainly show a decrease in new auto sales of around 3 million cars compared to 2007.
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