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.
Even with the threat of bankruptcy hanging over the head of the entire automotive industry, GM and Ford saw their May sales fall by a smaller margin than in previous months while their main competitors, Honda and Toyota, fell more significantly. Automotive News reports the figures.
Compared to May 2008, Ford’s sales dropped 25.8% while GM’s sales declined 29%. As bad as those figures sound, they are considerably smaller declines than we’ve seen the last few months, when comparative month-to-month sales were typically down 35-40% each month.
Honda and Toyota, on the other hand, had typically seen their declines in the last few months average around 10% lower than the American automakers. But in May, they both dropped significantly faster than the recent trend, 41.5% and 40.7% respectively.
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