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.
Multiple outlets are reporting that General Motors (NYSE:GM) advised the presidential auto task force that it does not need $2 billion in federal aid for the the month of March. A statement made by Ray Young, GM’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, indicated that cost reductions and spending deferrals over the last two [...]
Right on cue, CNBC’s Jim Cramer’s defensive volley was returned Tuesday night by The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart. That’s a wicked backhand Stewart’s got, putting a little spin on the lob by making fun of the team response by the General Electric-owned NBC family. Basic Cable Personality Clash Skirmish ’09
After Comedy Central’s The Daily Show took CNBC’s Jim Cramer, Rick Santelli and the rest of the financial news network to the comedic woodshed last week, CNBC and Cramer tried their hands at rebuttals. Apparently CNBC’s management and that of its parent, General Electric-owned NBC, were not savvy enough to realize that this is merely [...]
Messy and raw, often lacking in adequate context, text messages between former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, his staffer and lover Christine Beatty and other members of the mayor’s administration are now open for public perusal, thanks to the Wayne County Clerk’s Office which released the messages on Monday. The Detroit Free Press and several other [...]
TIME magazine picks up 24/7 WALL ST.’s list of the top ten newspapers most likely to close down altogether or go entirely digital, sans print edition. The Detroit News appears as paper number four on the list, with this rationale: The Detroit News is one of two daily papers in the big American city badly [...]
President Barack Obama is widely expected to sign an executive order today which undoes the previous Bush administration policy and earlier executive order limiting embryonic stem cell research.
Automaker Chrysler filed a subpoena for tissue samples from a dead man who’d sued the corporation prior to his death. The deceased, Harold St. John, apparently died of mesothelioma, a lung disease most often caused by exposure to asbestos. St. John believed that the source of asbestos to which he was exposed was from brake [...]
Asian markets were lower again overnight; their slide is attributed to the news yesterday that General Motors’ (NYSE:GM) auditors said they have “substantial concerns” about GM’s continued operations. European markets have been more moderate today in their reaction, however; this may change once employment data is released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
This worries me far more than two people of the same sex united in a social contract: imagine a robot hugging you repeatedly and not letting you go. It’s just a geek’s futuristic fantasy, you might say, but apparently this has already happened recently to a Japanese research assistant.
In yet another keen display of market prowess, CNBC’S Rick Santelli “bailed out” of an appearance on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with host Jon Stewart. In the aftermath of the ensuing backlash, one might wonder whether Santelli left derivatives trading because he liked himself too much. Video follows:
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