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.
It seems the expected hangover from the cash for clunkers program has been postponed as Ford and GM both post monthly gains over the previous year in October without the benefit of government-funded tax benefits. Automotive News says that with the October numbers, domestic auto sales “finally show some real spark.”
Ford’s October sales of 136,583 vehicles were up 3 percent over the same month in 2008; GM’s sales of 176,632 vehicles was a 4 percent jump. After months of declines, some of them as steep as 50 percent, this is incredibly good news, especially for GM as it works to reestablish itself after a painful bankruptcy this summer.
Chrysler, unfortunately, still lags far behind. October sales for the number three domestic automaker dropped by 30 percent compared to last October, continuing a long string of monthly drops.
The two largest Japanese automakers, Honda and Toyota, were dead even with last year.
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