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.
If either General Motors or Chrysler goes into bankruptcy, it could wreak havoc on the supply chain that turns raw materials into a car’s constituent parts. The risk wouldn’t fall just on the Big Three, but also foreign automakers who use the same suppliers as their U.S. counterparts. Concern over systemic failure in the auto supply chain was so great last month that the Treasury Department approved $5 billion in loans to suppliers.
Today there was a glimpse into what an auto supplier shutdown could mean for car companies. About 1,500 people were sent home from two Chrysler minivan plants in Ontario because of a for engines and transmissions from a parts plant that had been closed.
The entire second shifts at both plants were stopped, which came after a Wednesday work stoppage, according to The Windsor Star.
The Solus Manufacturing plant was recently taken over by new owners that closed it last week. Chrysler said it doesn’t know if every factory would be affected by this shortage — or how soon, considering auto plants currently have inventory.
The problem is the plants’ new owners laid off its workers, but they had a sit-down strike on the premises to obtain severance. Chrysler paid $400,000 to the employees to release the tooling. Now Chrysler Canada is dispatching its lawyers to obtain secure access to tooling parts and move them to a plant near Toronto to continue production.
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