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.
According to White House officials, President Barack Obama will announce new fuel efficiency standards for 2017-2025 model vehicles.
The U.S. Treasury Department announced on Thursday that Chrysler had paid off the last remaining government investment in the company, much sooner than anyone expected them to do so.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, son of legendary Michigan Governor George Romney, came through Michigan on Wednesday on a fundraising trip. But the Michigan Democratic Party questioned why Michigan residents would support Romney after he advocated killing the state’s major industry.
It was announced on Wednesday that the White House expects the federal government to lose $14 billion of the roughly $80 billion it spent in 2009 to rescue GM and Chrysler. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post calling that a big success.
It’s official. Chrysler has paid off some $7 billion that it was loaned by the federal government in 2009 in order to keep the company afloat while it went through a managed bankruptcy and restructured.
Former Gov. Jennifer Granholm has some harsh words for GOP candidates for president Tuesday after Chrysler announced it had paid back its debt to the government. On her Facebook page, Granholm posted the following:
A new study by one of the leading auto industry analysis firms concludes that the American domestic automobile market will rebound to a full 16 million vehicles sold by the year 2013, a number that would be near the highest rates of the last decade.
With the announcement that General Motors will add 4,000 new jobs around the country, the total number of workers for the Big Three automakers is now approaching the levels from before the industry crash and resulting bankruptcies for GM and Chrysler.
The Big Three American automakers all showed significant increases in sales over the same month in 2010, with General Motors leading the way at 29 percent, Chrysler at 23 percent and Ford at 12 percent.
Assuming market conditions remain favorable and a bond sale goes well, the new Chrysler — less than two years removed from bankruptcy — says it will have the federal government paid back for loans it made to keep the company afloat by the time August rolls around.
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