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.
You might think that the second largest car company in the country might be happy to see the first and third largest car companies go bankrupt and not come back. You’d be wrong. The chairman and heir of Ford Motor Company visited the White House on Monday and praised President Obama for intervening to keep his chief competitors alive, the Detroit News reports:
Bill Ford Jr. told reporters today in Washington that he met briefly with Obama in the Oval Office.
Ford reiterated that the company supported the decision by the Obama administration to rescue General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC with $62 billion in government loans.
“I complimented him on the way he’s handled the industry,” saying the company supported the rescue of the two companies because it provided stability to suppliers that all three companies use.
“Preventing the collapse of the supply base was something that they did swiftly and forcefully, and it worked,” Ford said.
Because all three auto companies rely on a pool of shared suppliers to provide the parts for their cars, if GM and Chrysler had gone down Ford would likely have gone with them as much of their supply chain went bankrupt.
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