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.
Whirlpool has won the first round of a process that could end with tariffs being put on the importation of refrigerators from Mexico and South Korea after the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled that it is being harmed by cheap labor in those countries.
The Detroit Free Press reports:
Whirlpool, the world’s largest appliance maker, is being harmed by low-cost refrigerators from Mexico and South Korea, a U.S. trade panel ruled, paving the way for tariffs on those imports…
This unanimous decision by the ITC validates the action we’ve taken to protect our 23,000 U.S. employees and the communities in which they work,” Jill Saletta, a spokeswoman for Benton Harbor-based Whirlpool, said in a statement.
One must wonder if Whirlpool’s decision to close down their factory in Evansville, IN and move it to Mexico last year counts as an “action to protect” their American workers. That laid off 1,100 workers. Ironically, it came after the company got a $19 million stimulus bill grant to create American jobs.
And if they do impose import tariffs, will it be against those Mexican-made refrigerators made by Whirlpool themselves?
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