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 remarkable recovery of the American auto industry continues with the announcement that the Big Three automakers will invest a collective $2 billion in plants in the state of Michigan, hiring at least 2,250 workers and ramping up production at those facilities.
This is part of a deal with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation to swap tax incentives for more investment:
Gov. Jennifer Granholm said this will be the largest MEGA grant day in the agency’s history, in dollars and in the number of jobs created and retained.
In many cases, she said, Michigan was competing with other states and countries. Ohio, for example, was courting Ford.
Ford’s tax incentives are worth $415 million over 15 years — but they replace three prior MEGA grants. The new umbrella amount represents a net gain of $200 million, Granholm said at the Ford Van Dyke plant in Sterling Heights on Monday.
The tax incentives, worth $1.3 billion for Chrysler over 20 years, are modeled after what the state gave GM for its Orion plant.
The MEDC says the tax incentives are contingent upon the number of jobs created or retained.
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