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.
The bankruptcy judge handling the GM case has granted final approval for the company to borrow some $33 billion from the American and Canadian governments to help the company survive bankruptcy restructuring.
Judge Robert Gerber of U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan approved the final order for the loan, along with denying a request by nonunion retirees for an official committee to represent them.
The automaker had received interim court approval on June 2 to access up to $15 billion of the bankruptcy financing, also known as a debtor-in-possession, or DIP, loan. Today’s order cleared the way for GM to access the rest of the DIP loan, which is the largest ever approved in a U.S. bankruptcy.
The judge also rejected a bid by 122,000 non-union retirees to be represented in the case by an official committee. Though their pensions will be transferred to the new GM, the retirees face sharp cuts in their medical benefits, including elimination of their dental insurance entirely.
Had an official committee been established it could have negotiated with GM on behalf of those retirees, but the judge ruled against the motion. That leaves those retirees with no leverage and no means of recourse in preventing the loss of benefits.
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