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.
General Motors has announced that specific plastic parts of the Chevy Volt — a plug-in hybrid electric car — will be manufactured with recycled oil boom from the gulf oil spill disaster, reports the Los Angeles Times.
The highly-anticipated Chevy Volt is gaining lots of attention these days as car enthusiasts — and especially green car enthusiasts — track the electric vehicle’s every move. In a story published this afternoon, the New York Times focuses on General Motors’ choice of its Hamtramck plant for final assembly of the electric car. Like many [...]
Michigan’s optimistic governor should be aware that the state is not only competing with Asia in building a lithium-ion battery infrastructure, but with neighboring states with ambitions just as sweeping. There is, however, one important difference: Michigan, as far as it has fallen from grace as the center of automotive manufacturing, still has further to fall if it is not careful.
After weeks of rumors and conflicting statements, General Motors has finally announced that it will not be building a new plant in Flint to produce engines for the Chevy Volt and Chevy Cruze. Automotive News reports:
In December, General Motors (NYSE:GM) announced that they were delaying the opening of a plant in Flint that would build engines for the Chevy Volt and Chevy Cruze, both hybrid vehicles, but they said that this would not delay the 2011 debut of the vehicles on the market. Now they’ve canceled the plant entirely.
When General Motors unveiled its electric hybrid Chevy Volt an economic epoch ago — at the 2007 North American International Auto Show, what it gave us (PDF 219k) seemed almost too good to be true. GM appeared to “get it” when it came to the new environmental consciousness sweeping popular culture. For the first time, [...]
It looks like General Motors (NYSE:GM) has serious plans to release the Chevy Volt — its second attempt at an electric car since the EV-1 — by next year, as GM announced today that the electric vehicle’s battery will be assembled in a Michigan-based factory.
Touts GM’s 2010 concept car: “The eyes of the world are now on the Volt” During an invitation-only meeting with 500 workers at the General Motors Corp. Technical Center in Warren Friday morning, Sen. John McCain took questions on topics ranging from energy to abortion, the high cost of health care and the war [...]
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