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 cash for clunkers program officially ended at 8 pm on Monday, but the Department of Transportation extended the deadline for filing completed applications to noon on Tuesday because of a last minute rush to complete deals that brought some technical problems with it. Automotive News reports:
The Transportation Department extended to noon tomorrow the deadline for dealers filing rebate claims under the cash-for-clunkers program amid mounting reports of computer snags.
The deadline for completing customers’ deals remains 8 p.m. EDT tonight, the agency said in an e-mail.
“Despite a large increase in the system’s capacity, the Web site was down temporarily this afternoon,” the statement said. “Because of the temporary shutdown, dealers have been given extra time to file the necessary paperwork.”
The computers stayed down most of Monday afternoon and the National Automobile Dealers Association said that if the system wasn’t back online by 8 pm Monday night they would ask for a further extension in order to make sure that all deals agreed to prior to the deadline would be processed and the dealerships would get reimbursed for them.
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