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.
More than two weeks after the end of the cash for clunkers program, the Department of Transportation says it has finally managed to get more than one third of the vouchers processed and the reimbursements sent to the dealerships that submitted them. Automotive News reports:
The Transportation Department has repaid dealers for more than a third of the vouchers they gave consumers under the cash-for-clunkers program, a federal spokeswoman said today.
As of this morning, the government has paid dealers $1.22 billion for 289,000 vouchers, said Jill Zuckman, spokeswoman for Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.
That’s 42.4 percent of the $2.88 billion applied for by dealers under the program, which accepted rebate submissions from July 27 to Aug. 25.
The DOT doubled the number of people they had processing the voucher submissions after the program ended and say that they still intend to meet a September 30 deadline to have all the reimbursement payments in the hands of dealers.
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