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.
President Obama spent Labor Day speaking to several thousand union workers at at General Motors’ headquarters at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, calling for an infrastructure project to create more jobs.
In his speech, he defended his bailout of the auto industry, which has returned Chrysler and General Motors to profitability in less than two years.
We said that American autoworkers could once again build the best cars in the world. So we stood by the auto industry. And we made some tough choices that were necessary to make it succeed. And now, the Big Three are turning a profit and hiring new workers, and building the best cars in the world right here in Detroit, right here in the Midwest, right here in the United States of America.
I know it. I’ve seen it. I’ve been to GM’s Hamtramck plant. I’ve been to Chrysler’s Jefferson North Plant. I’ve seen Detroit prove the cynics and the naysayers wrong.
And he called for a new program of federal spending on infrastructure projects, foreshadowing the speech he will give to a joint session of Congress on Thursday:
We’ve got roads and bridges across this country that need rebuilding. We’ve got private companies with the equipment and the manpower to do the building. We’ve got more than 1 million unemployed construction workers ready to get dirty right now. There is work to be done and there are workers ready to do it. Labor is on board. Business is on board. We just need Congress to get on board. Let’s put America back to work.
He also hinted that he will call for an extension of the payroll tax cut that was passed last year and is set to expire in a few months.
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