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The Michigan Messenger going forward

By Staff Report | 11.16.11

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 [...]

Colorado-based abstinence program provided false and misleading information to Michigan students

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.16.11

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.

Class action lawsuit filed against MERS over unpaid taxes

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.15.11

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.

Schuette fights important mercury regulations

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By Eartha Jane Melzer | 11.14.11

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.

GM disputes Romney’s claim of government control

By Ed Brayton | 02.25.10 | 7:08 am

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, preparing for another presidential run in 2012 after finishing 2nd to John McCain in the Republican primary in 2008, has a new book coming out that accuses the White House of micromanaging business decisions made by General Motors now that the government owns a significant portion of stock in the company as collateral on tens of billions of dollars loaned to the company.

Both GM and the White House dispute that account, the Detroit News reports:

GM spokesman Greg Martin said the “calling the shots” assertion isn’t true.

“Our experience has been that the administration has been true to their word,” Martin said. “We are free to make the business decisions to restore GM to profitability. We’re making progress, and we are confident we have a bright future.”

White House spokesman Matt Lehrich told The Detroit News, “President Obama took difficult and politically unpopular steps to give the American auto companies a second lease on life and save tens of thousands of American jobs — and today these companies are emerging stronger than ever.

“While the president will continue to monitor the taxpayers’ investment in these companies, he has enough on his plate to have no interest in running them. We don’t, nor have we ever, run the day-to-day operations of GM. Decisions and management are handled by the company alone.”

Romney’s proposals and criticisms on the question of what the government should have done to help GM and Chrysler over the last year and a half have been all over the map, sometimes for the bailout and sometimes not. He now says he was for a managed bankruptcy, but without any federal money, something that was impossible to do with the tight credit markets at the time.

Comments

  • niemsters

    Dispite the claims of the W.H. managing GM, I'm actually suprised Romney didn't take MORE of an “I told you so” attitude. Romney called it in his NYT opinion piece, that a government bail out wouldn't fix anything and GM would have to declair bancrupcy anyways. But what happened? The W.H. spent 10 Billion dollars to stave off a GM bancrupcy for 3 months! They'd have been better off taking Romneys advice, saving $10 Billion and they'd be 3 months further along in their restructuring by now…

    • scottyp

      Mitt in his book said the following about Toyota:

      “In the auto world, Toyota innovated (verb confusion) what we now call “quality manufacturing” — placing such consistent attention to each detail at every step of the manufacturing process that flaws and rejects virtually disappeared. In doing so, they not only improved the value of their products, they also reduced the number of workers needed to rework defective cars. Productivity soared.”

      Romney also does not keep abreast of events; his book is out dated before it hits the books shelves. Romney must not have been paying attention to the rising number of complains and accidents, which were occurring even under the previous administration. Maybe what Romney likes, is the savings of money on the recalls at the expense of people lives — I think that is where the issue rests.

      Peoples destroyed lives equals much money in Romney pockets.

      Vote NO FOR MITT!

      • niemsters

        Well that's the price you pay for actually writing a book yourself, it takes a year not 3 months like most politicians. And besides Romney is still right. Toyota changed the entire auto industry with its approach to cars, and US car makers followed suite. Entire books have been written about the Toyota process. It's just Mitts bad luck that the recalls have happened, but still anyone who focuses on these 3 sentences out of the 360 page book is probably to narrow minded to think outside of what CNN tells them to anyways.

        • scottyp

          It is a nice Romney spin the CNN statement; however recall deals were made during the last administration, well before Romney and his ghostwriter began Mitts new book about himself, and well-heeled Romney should have know the information.

          Romney is a man of spins, deception, and failure to face the truth, thinking people can’t see through the fluff in Romney’s book and know better than to take their information and judgments based on Mitts inflated written version of him

          • scottyp

            Not to mention Romney title is unoriginal. Check out Berry Goldwater's book titled “Without Apology…….”

            Romney had to say he was like JFK,
            Romney lifts Goldwater's title
            both men Romney's dad hated
            must be something psychological going on with Romney

  • scottyp

    Romney over speaks and has become known for inaccuracies in his facts. People cannot take Romney as a serious contender for the White House. The American Conservative said it best: “criticism of Romney was rooted more than anything in a lack of trust inspired by his sudden, total, and unconvincing reinvention.”

    Romney – inaccurate and unconvincing.

  • scottyp

    It is a nice Romney spin the CNN statement; however recall deals were made during the last administration, well before Romney and his ghostwriter began Mitts new book about himself, and well-heeled Romney should have know the information.

    Romney is a man of spins, deception, and failure to face the truth, thinking people can’t see through the fluff in Romney’s book and know better than to take their information and judgments based on Mitts inflated written version of him

  • niemsters

    You sound like you could have been dumped by Romeny 30 years ago and are still bitter about it.

    And what kind of role model is Obama who admits he used to do cocain and go to communist ralleys in his books?

    • scottyp

      Best you can do niemsters? ROTFL

      What kind of role model is Romney? Using bad cuss words, getting handcuffed, blaming other people, not being honest, getting arrested, picking fights with people, lifting titles of books, telling falsehoods in his speech's and thinking everyone has a 'crush' on him. YIKES! A bit egocentric, no HUGELY egocentric.

      Was Romney married thirty years ago? Let's see he married in 1969, so he has been married about forty years. Wow, and he dumped someone thirty years ago? I knew he was a John Edwards!

      Romney is not my type. Never could be, never will be. What do you think this is a love/hate relationship?

      See Romneyites can't get their facts straight and look like idiots!!! Gee, thirty years ago Mitt dumped someone and he had been married for ten years!

  • scottyp

    Say NO To Romney!

  • niemsters

    Dispite the claims of the W.H. managing GM, I'm actually suprised Romney didn't take MORE of an “I told you so” attitude. Romney called it in his NYT opinion piece, that a government bail out wouldn't fix anything and GM would have to declair bancrupcy anyways. But what happened? The W.H. spent 10 Billion dollars to stave off a GM bancrupcy for 3 months! They'd have been better off taking Romneys advice, saving $10 Billion and they'd be 3 months further along in their restructuring by now…

  • scottyp

    Romney over speaks and has become known for inaccuracies in his facts. People cannot take Romney as a serious contender for the White House. The American Conservative said it best: “criticism of Romney was rooted more than anything in a lack of trust inspired by his sudden, total, and unconvincing reinvention.”

    Romney – inaccurate and unconvincing.

  • scottyp

    Mitt in his book said the following about Toyota:

    “In the auto world, Toyota innovated (verb confusion) what we now call “quality manufacturing” — placing such consistent attention to each detail at every step of the manufacturing process that flaws and rejects virtually disappeared. In doing so, they not only improved the value of their products, they also reduced the number of workers needed to rework defective cars. Productivity soared.”

    Romney also does not keep abreast of events; his book is out dated before it hits the books shelves. Romney must not have been paying attention to the rising number of complains and accidents, which were occurring even under the previous administration. Maybe what Romney likes, is the savings of money on the recalls at the expense of people lives — I think that is where the issue rests.

    Peoples destroyed lives equals much money in Romney pockets.

    Vote NO FOR MITT!

  • niemsters

    Well that's the price you pay for actually writing a book yourself, it takes a year not 3 months like most politicians. And besides Romney is still right. Toyota changed the entire auto industry with its approach to cars, and US car makers followed suite. Entire books have been written about the Toyota process. It's just Mitts bad luck that the recalls have happened, but still anyone who focuses on these 3 sentences out of the 360 page book is probably to narrow minded to think outside of what CNN tells them to anyways.

  • scottyp

    VOTE NO FOR MITT
    we don't need a president who was handcuff in his swim suit and has an arrest record. He is a bad example to our kids, with that bad cuss word he uses, think of how many kids he would get into trouble!

    Romneyfacts dot com

  • scottyp

    It is a nice Romney spin the CNN statement; however recall deals were made during the last administration, well before Romney and his ghostwriter began Mitts new book about himself, and well-heeled Romney should have know the information.

    Romney is a man of spins, deception, and failure to face the truth, thinking people can’t see through the fluff in Romney’s book and know better than to take their information and judgments based on Mitts inflated written version of him

  • scottyp

    Not to mention Romney title is unoriginal. Check out Berry Goldwater's book titled “Without Apology…….”

    Romney had to say he was like JFK,
    Romney lifts Goldwater's title
    both men Romney's dad hated
    must be something psychological going on with Romney

  • niemsters

    You sound like you could have been dumped by Romeny 30 years ago and are still bitter about it.

    And what kind of role model is Obama who admits he used to do cocain and go to communist ralleys in his books?

  • scottyp

    Best you can do niemsters? ROTFL

    What kind of role model is Romney? Using bad cuss words, getting handcuffed, blaming other people, not being honest, getting arrested, picking fights with people, lifting titles of books, telling falsehoods in his speech's and thinking everyone has a 'crush' on him. YIKES! A bit egocentric, no HUGELY egocentric.

    Was Romney married thirty years ago? Let's see he married in 1969, so he has been married about forty years. Wow, and he dumped someone thirty years ago? I knew he was a John Edwards!

    Romney is not my type. Never could be, never will be. What do you think this is a love/hate relationship?

    See Romneyites can't get their facts straight and look like idiots!!! Gee, thirty years ago Mitt dumped someone and he had been married for ten years!

  • scottyp

    Say NO To Romney!

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