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.
General Motors is going to follow through on a pledge to pay back nearly $6 billion in loans from the American and Canadian governments, loans that helped keep the company afloat so it could restructure, ahead of schedule. The Detroit Free Press reports:
Whitacre is to announce the payment at GM’s plant in Kansas City, Kan., and then fly to Washington to meet with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Michigan’s congressional delegation, people familiar with the plans said Monday.
GM is to use the move to highlight its steps toward issuing shares to the public and helping the U.S. government get out of its 60.1% ownership stake in the automaker. GM officials have said the company could break even this year, thanks to massive cost cuts under bankruptcy. The automaker reported a $4.3-billion loss for the last half of 2009.
The automaker’s payments are to include $4.7 billion to the U.S. Treasury and $1.1 billion to the Canadian government; it had already paid $2.3 billion on both loans. The money comes from a $16.4-billion escrow fund set up by the two governments as part of GM’s bankruptcy that the automaker is required to pay back by June.
This is certainly good news both for the government and for GM. If the company manages to break even for 2010, as they are seeking to do, that would an enormous achievement and would help give a big boost to an initial public stock offering.
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