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 part of the restructuring of Chrysler involves switching their wholesale and retail financing to GMAC, which is partly owned by General Motors:
Chrysler LLC will switch to GMAC Financial Services for its financing as part of its bankruptcy reorganization, a senior White House official said today.
“GMAC will become the financing source for new Chrysler cars,” the official said on background. GMAC will handle both wholesale and retail financing.
“We made the determination that Chrysler Financial did not have the resources” to meet a reorganized Chrysler’s needs, he said.
This is not as unusual as it sounds. Cerberus, the private equity company that owned Chrysler, also owned 51% of GMAC. General Motors controlled the other 49%.
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