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 newly restructured General Motors has emerged from bankruptcy proceedings after an all-night session doing the legal paperwork necessary to transfer all the valuable assets from the old company to the new one, the Associated Press reports:
The massive transfer of factories, money and intellectual property was completed about 6:30 a.m., according to a person briefed on the situation, clearing the way for a smaller and faster company better equipped to compete in the brutally tough global automotive market.
The person, who asked to remain anonymous because the deal wasn’t announced officially, said the signing meant the new GM had emerged from bankruptcy.
One bankruptcy expert called GM’s 40-day case the fastest ever for a company of its size.
Clearly, the administration used the Chrysler bankruptcy as a test case for this larger one and learned from their mistakes, paving the way for an incredibly fast transition. That’s why GM emerged from bankruptcy two days faster than Chrysler despite being a larger and far more complicated case.
This is good news for Michigan workers and communities; the sooner the factories are reopened and people are put back to work, the better for all involved.
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