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.
The automobile sales figures for February show that the slowdown in the auto industry is accelerating rapidly, with each of the Big Three automakers dropping at least 44% over the previous year and the big Japanese automakers doing only slightly better. Automotive News reports the figures.
The figures for the Big Three are devastatingly bad. Chrysler did the best of the three by only falling 44%. Ford (NYSE:F) declined by 49.5% and General Motors (NYSE:GM) by an astonishing 53.1%. Honda (NYSE:HMC) and Toyota (NYSE:TM), meanwhile, dropped 38% and 39.8% respectively. For the first two months of 2009 compared to the first two months of 2008, Chrysler is off 49.1%, Ford 45.9% and GM 51.1% — and that’s down from already historically low levels.
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