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.
As expected and as we reported last night, General Motors announced today that it would shutdown most of its assembly plants for up to 8 weeks over the summer in hopes of cutting their inventory during the current sales slump. The shutdown will decrease their production over the next three months by 190,000 vehicles. The New York Times’ Michelle Maynard has been posting on her Twitter account as she speaks with GM North America president Troy Clarke to get more information about the shutdowns.
She wrote a short while ago that Clarke was “ducking reporters’ questions about future of Lake Orion, MI plant, amid rumors plant may close.” But earlier she had written that the shutdowns “do not affect Lake Orion plant, because Malibu is in short supply.” She lists the plants in Michigan that will be closed from one to eight weeks as the assembly plants in Lansing, Detroit/Hamtramck, Pontiac and Flint.
Details are still coming out as to which plants will be shut down and for how long and which models will be affected.
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