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.
Automotive News reports that closing down or selling off Saturn, as GM will do at the end of this year, could have a significant effect on GM’s ability to meet government fuel efficiency standards and reduce its sales of environmentally-friendly products:
When General Motors closes down Saturn later this year, it will lose just over a quarter of its sales of fuel-saving hybrids — the type of vehicles that the Obama administration wants automakers to build more of.
And it’s not yet clear how the end of Saturn affects GM’s ability to meet toughening corporate average fuel economy standards. Because Saturn does not offer a V-8 engine or have trucks or body-on-frame SUVs, it is GM’s most fuel-efficient North American division.
The hit to the company’s ability to meet the government’s CAFE standards should be reduced by the fact that the company is also closing their Hummer and Pontiac brands, which tend to have much lower MPG than their other brands.
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