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.
Among the many revelations in a new book written by former President George. W. Bush is that he met with President-elect Barack Obama shortly after the 2008 election and assured him that he would use federal funds to keep GM and Chrysler alive so that his administration could craft a more permanent solution. The Detroit News reports:
In “Decision Points,” being released by Crown Books Tuesday, Bush writes that he told Barack Obama Nov. 10, in their first meeting after the election, that he wouldn’t let the auto industry collapse.
Later that week, Bush told his advisers of the decision.
“I told Barack Obama that I wouldn’t let the automakers fail,” Bush writes. “I won’t dump this mess on him.”
Bush says that in the end, he decided to rescue the two automakers because of the potential impact on the U.S. economy.
Bush’s advisers were telling him that with the nation’s economy in such a fragile state, allowing the American auto industry to collapse and go into immediately bankruptcy would push the country into a great depression. The short-term financing Bush extended allowed the Obama administration to devise a policy for saving the auto industry from collapse and return them to profitability.
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