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.
Team member Spencer Ackerman at The Washington Independent sends over the story that General Motors (NYSE:GM) has tried to keep quiet.
Following Sunday’s Super Bowl, the automaker — keeping with a marketing tradition — awarded the game’s MVP with the car of his choice. Santonio Holmes, the Steelers wide-out who caught the game’s winning touchdown, chose a Cadillac Hybrid Platinum. Price tag: $85,200.
Why we should care?
Well, for one thing, GM has accepted $9.4 billion in taxpayer funding in December and January, and is slated to receive another $4 billion in February. The New York Daily News reported Monday that the struggling automaker knows it has an image problem:
But breaking from recent tradition, there was no Cadillac on the field Sunday night during the awards ceremony and no Cadillac in the hotel ballroom Monday for the MVP news conference. Usually the MVP marks off on a board which car he wants. There was no board, either. It was all done in private.
Over at Deadspin, Rick Chandler asks the only relevant question: “Hey, Did You And I Just Buy Santonio Holmes A New Cadillac Escalade?”
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