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.
With all of the job cuts among the Big Three, the American auto industry will soon be nearly half the size it was a mere six years ago.
GM announced the latest cut on Feb. 10. GM said it will cut 10,000 white-collar jobs worldwide in 2009, including about 3,400 in the United States. In November, GM said in its application for a federal bailout that it had already cut U.S. employment from 177,000 in 2002 to 93,000. Cutting another 3,400 jobs means GM will have cut 49 percent of its work force since 2002.
And General Motors is not alone:
Chrysler said in late 2008 it had 56,600 employees, after reductions of about 32,000 since 2007. At the end of 2004, the company had 84,375 employees, so it has already shrunk about 33 percent. Look for even more cuts to come…
Meanwhile Ford has shrunk its North American work force by about 44 percent in about three years, to about 65,000.
And this does not include cuts that may be promised as part of the restructuring plans that GM and Chrysler must submit to Congress on Tuesday.
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