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.
WASHINGTON — When Congress rushed to pass a $2 billion extension of the enormously popular “Cash for Clunkers” program earlier this month, there were few cheerleaders more quick than President Obama to extol the environmental virtues of the program. “This gives consumers a break, reduces dangerous carbon pollution and our dependence on foreign oil, and [...]
WASHINGTON — While U.S. Senate leaders have reached agreement on a $2 billion extension of the cash for clunkers program, many lawmakers are already bracing for a more distant confrontation: The likely debate over how to return that funding to another stimulus program that it came from.
With the raging success of the cash for clunkers program and signs that sales have begun to rebound, auto industry analysts are predicting a big jump in August. Automotive News reports that one major analyst is predicting an annualized sales rate that hasn’t been seen since in two years:
After months of depressing sales volumes, the Big Three automakers got some good news in July. In the wake of Chrysler and GM emerging from bankruptcy restructuring and the start of the cash for clunkers program, the sales losses narrowed considerably from recent months — and one of them even posted an increase over July, [...]
The Detroit News reports on a new survey by Edmonds that suggests that the pace of auto sales has picked up for the month of July, with the annualized rate expected to top 10 million cars for the first time this year. The annualized rate is the month’s total sales multiplied by 12.
It’s not very often that a drop in sales from the previous year would be greeted as good news, but when the drop is only 10.7% compared to a trend of 30-40% decreases in recent months, that’s going to cause some cheering at Ford headquarters. The automaker’s sales dropped from 173,462 in June, 2008, to [...]
Automotive News has an article looking at the devastating effects of GM’s financial problems on the city of Pontiac, where the number of auto manufacturing jobs has been in steady decline. The loss of jobs has all but bankrupted the city and sent the unemployment and foreclosure rates through the roof.
The federal government has followed through on a provision in the stimulus package and helping Detroit’s Big Three automakers to recover by placing a huge order for fuel efficient vehicles for the federal fleet. Automotive News reports:
The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute put out a new study on Monday morning that concluded that the government’s push to make the Big Three automakers build more fuel-efficient cars will increase the profits of the American automotive industry and put the current crisis to rest. The report concludes:
Starting in 2012, due to the significant drop in production and massive layoffs in the American auto industry, foreign-owned automakers will likely make more cars in the United States than American-owned automakers will. Automotive News reports:
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