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.
When the CEOs from Ford, GM and Chrysler went before Congress two weeks ago to ask for a $25 billion rescue package, lawmakers slammed them for each taking a separate private jet to the nation’s capitol while claiming poverty. Now GM has taken steps to insure that the flights of a private jet they lease cannot be tracked by the public. Bloomberg News reports:
General Motors Corp., criticized by U.S. lawmakers for its use of corporate jets, asked aviation regulators to block the public’s ability to track a plane it uses.
“We availed ourselves of the option as others do to have the aircraft removed” from a Federal Aviation Administration tracking service, a GM spokesman, Greg Martin, said yesterday in an interview. He declined to discuss why GM made the request.
Previous public data showed that this was the same jet used by General Motors’ CEO Rick Wagoner to go to Washington DC two weeks ago. The FAA says this is all routine, that they remove jets from the public database if such a removal is requested.
Critics have pointed to the private jets as a symbol of profligate and wasteful spending by the Big Three automakers. Ford announced on Tuesday that they are selling their five corporate jets.
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