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 LA Times has an article chronicling the attempt by Eaton Rapids, Michigan-based Dowding Industries as it attempts to make the transition from manufacturing auto supplies to making wind turbines. The company took out a $12 million loan to retool their plant to make parts for the new green economy but things have been rough going so far.
The article notes that the biggest problem encountered by Dowding is lack of demand for the wind turbines they are now set up to manufacture, largely due to the recession and the tight credit markets making wind turbine projects difficult to get financing for. The company has made a full transition to a new kind of manufacturing only to find that demand for the things they can build has not grown as they had anticipated.
They embarked on the transition at the encouragement of the government and industry experts, who predicted that auto supply companies would have to diversify in order to survive. The company now has a very high debt load and little business, forcing them to scrounge up business making parts for satellites, dump trucks and subway cars in order to keep up with their loan payments rather than doing what they thought they’d be doing, building wind turbines.
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