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.
The September domestic auto sales numbers are in and they’re pretty dismal for two of the three American automakers. Ford and General Motors both saw significant decreases over September 2009, when the cash for clunkers program was pushing sales to their highest levels of the year. Ford’s sales declined 14 percent, while General Motors declined [...]
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:
The fallout from the cash for clunkers program continues. General Motors announced on Tuesday that it was recalling 2,400 laid off autoworkers and adding production shifts in order to rebuild inventories depleted over the last few weeks by the major sales boost due to the cash for clunkers program. The company is also adding 600 [...]
More than two weeks after the end of the cash for clunkers program, the Department of Transportation says it has finally managed to get more than one third of the vouchers processed and the reimbursements sent to the dealerships that submitted them. Automotive News reports:
It looks as if the big logjam of payments to car dealerships to reimburse them for the tax rebates they fronted to customers during the cash for clunkers program may finally be easing. The Detroit News reports that as of Thursday, the Department of Transportation had paid $500 million out to dealerships, about 17 percent [...]
After weeks of complaints from dealers about the slow pace of reimbursement checks being issued to dealers — and weeks of promises from the Department of Transportation that they were fixing the system — new data from dealer associations shows that only a tiny percentage of claims have been paid. Automotive News reports:
The cash for clunkers program resulted in approximately 700,000 older, less fuel efficient cars being traded in for newer, more environmentally friendly vehicles. And the Detroit Free Press reports that the average miles per gallon of the new cars was 24.9, compared to 15.8 for the cars being traded in:
Automotive News reports that the percentage of cars made by the Big Three American automakers that were sold during the cash for clunkers program was lower than their overall market share.
The Detroit Free Press reports on the final numbers from the cash for clunkers program, noting that 690,114 deals were submitted by dealers for a total of $2.877 billion in rebates. Since $100 million of the $3 billion allocated was intentionally reserved for administrative costs, the program came in just slightly under budget. And here [...]
The cash for clunkers program officially ended at 8 pm on Monday, but the Department of Transportation extended the deadline for filing completed applications to noon on Tuesday because of a last minute rush to complete deals that brought some technical problems with it. Automotive News reports:
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