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.
When I read in a U-M economic forecast compiled by the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics that we’re not in a recession, just experiencing slowing in economic growth, I wanted to know the specifics. So I read on until it explained quite plainly what’s holding us back from falling off the edge into a good ol’ fashioned recession. The first thing listed was … a weak dollar?
A declining U.S. dollar has kept our exports rising at a healthy 10.7 percent clip over the past 4 quarters.
Wow. Thank goodness for declining spending power!
Other reasons cited:
For these reasons, we’re OKAY, and doing better than we think. Good to know that what’s keeping us from a “real” recession is nothing “temporary.”
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