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 highly-anticipated Chevy Volt is gaining lots of attention these days as car enthusiasts — and especially green car enthusiasts — track the electric vehicle’s every move.
In a story published this afternoon, the New York Times focuses on General Motors’ choice of its Hamtramck plant for final assembly of the electric car. Like many national stories about Hamtramck — a municipality entirely within the Detroit city limits — the city’s rich Polish history proved irresistible to the NYT writer. Of course, Hamtramck has been changing demographically for quite some time — look no further than the two Banglideshi-American members on the city council for proof.
But as the NYT points out, the fact that GM is giving the sexy new assignment to Hamtramck is very good news for the locals, no matter where their families call home.
And GM is actually spreading the good news around. Several Michigan plants will benefit from Chevy Volt work. From the press release the company issued yesterday:
Detroit-Hamtramck will be the final assembly location for the Volt, using tooling from Grand Blanc, lithium-ion batteries from GM’s Brownstown Township battery pack manufacturing facility, camshafts and connecting rods from Bay City, and stampings and the Volt’s 1.4L engine-generator from Flint.
The company announced that prototype Volts will begin driving out of the Hamtramck plant next spring, with regular production set to begin sometime near the end of 2010.
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