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.
Michigan ranked near the bottom of all the states in terms of the average increase in mpg gained from swapping older cars for newer ones during the cash for clunkers program earlier this year. The Detroit News reports that disappointing news:
Gov. Jennifer Granholm appeared on Meet the Press on Sunday and offered praise to the Obama administration for saving GM and Chrysler. Video below the fold.
President Obama will hold a town hall meeting in the Detroit area on July 14, according to an advisory released by the White House on Tuesday afternoon. What the town hall meeting will address or where it will be, have not been disclosed. This will be Obama’s first visit to the state since taking the [...]
WASHINGTON — Even as some House Democrats moved closer last week to installing first-of-a-kind limits on the carbon emissions blamed for global warming, others are in a full-court press to kill a separate White House effort to curb those same greenhouse gasses.
Ford was the first of the three American automakers to submit their restructuring plan (PDF) to Congress. Because they are in a much stronger cash position than either Chrysler or GM, they are asking for a $9 billion line of credit for future use rather than an immediate infusion of cash:
As the Big Three automakers prepare this week to go back to Congress a second time to plead for a rescue package that will keep them afloat in hard economic times, Senate Republicans are demanding that the UAW make concessions to lower labor costs. Automotive News reports:
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