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.
In addition to big jumps in sales for GM and Ford, Chrysler also took a big jump in May, up 33 percent over the same month in 2009. For the year, Chrysler is now up 8 percent. Very good news for the entire auto industry today. Toyota and Honda were up 7 percent and 19 [...]
The domestic auto sales figures are being released today and the news is good for Ford and General Motors, both of which showed double digit gains over the same month last year. Ford increased its sales by 22 percent while General Motors got a 17 percent boost. Chrysler has not yet reported. For the year [...]
The domestic auto sales figures for April were released on Monday and the news is good across the board for American automakers. Ford and Chrysler led all the major car companies by posting 25 percent gains over the same month last year, while General Motors posted a 7 percent increase in sales. The sales were [...]
Ford and General Motors turned in another solid month of gains over the previous year in March. Ford sales jumped 40 percent over March, 2008, while GM improved by 21 percent. Chrysler, unfortunately, did not repeat its small gain in sales from February, falling 8 percent for March. The big surprise was Toyota, which grew [...]
The final sales figures are starting to come in from all of the domestic and foreign automotive manufacturers for the month of February. Automotive News will be updating this chart all day long as they come in. So far the only domestic company to report is General Motors, which came in with strong sales up [...]
Continuing the trend of the last few months, domestic auto sales for Ford and General Motors showed strong improvement in January. Ford sold 116,534 vehicles, a 25 percent jump over the first month of 2009, while General Motors jumped 14 percent on sales of 146,825 vehicles. Chrysler bucked the trend, dropping 8 percent from last [...]
A new report from auto industry analyst Scotia Economics predicts that global auto sales will rebound in 2010 and show strong growth after one of the worst years in history in 2009. Automotive News reports:
Domestic auto sales for the month of December is projected to take a significant 15 percent jump, according to a new report by auto analyst JD Power and Associates. Automotive News reports:
The November domestic auto sales numbers are out and the word ‘flat’ describes them perfectly. Total domestic sales were up a miniscule 35 cars over November, 2008 on volume of more than 747,000 purchases. Ford sales were dead even at zero percent, while GM’s sales fell 2 percent. Chrysler took the worst hit with a [...]
A new auto industry forecast by Fitch Ratings, an automobile market analysis firm, predicts that a slow recovery for the economy and resulting slow turnaround for the auto industry may prevent GM and Chrysler from making an initial public offering of stock in the newly restructured auto companies. The Detroit News reports:
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