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.
Ford Motor Company’s chairman said he was “horrified” by Congress’ treatment of Detroit’s auto industry last year, and is more resolved than ever not to take the federal government’s money.
Bill Ford said the way Congress treated Ford (NYSE:F), General Motors (NYSE:GM) and Chrysler last year scared and angered him.
“The fallout from that, it was breathtaking to me, and not in a good way. I was alternately horrified and then angry at what was going on. But what’s been interesting, though, is I don’t think that’s shared on Main Street,” the chairman said in an interview with the Detroit Free Press. “I think there’s an enormous reservoir of goodwill towards Ford. And I think the fact that we’re seen as trying to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and make it on our own is also resonating with people around the country.”
CEO Alan Mulally said taking loans from the government, even though Ford has lost billions recently, would severely limit the company’s freedom to innovate and run itself.
“We have the resources, and we are implementing our transformational plan … When you are owned by the U.S. government, you are in a different situation.”
Mulally roundly criticized the idea of bankruptcy, saying that Ford’s management would lose control of the company if it goes to court to shed liabilities.
Justin Miller is a political journalist based in Wayne County who has worked for Real Clear Politics, blogged for The Atlantic and covered the 2008 elections in Ohio for The New York Observer’s Politicker.com network of state politics news sites.
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