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.
Domestic auto sales by the Big Three American automakers was up significantly in January over last year and the increase was led by General Motors and Chrysler, the two companies that had to undergo managed bankruptcies in 2009.
After losing nearly half of all the manufacturing jobs in the state over the last ten years, the number of Michigan workers who belong to unions has dropped dramatically.
All three big domestic automakers had strong November sales as the total domestic auto sales was up 17 percent over last year. Ford was up 20 percent, Chrysler was up 17 percent and General Motors was up 12 percent. Toyota was the only major carmaker to see sales go down, by 3 percent. Total domestic [...]
The good news continues for Michigan’s auto industry as General Motors and Chrysler announced that they will each add a thousand new engineering and research jobs as they seek to modernize their fleets. The General Motors additions will work on high-tech electric cars like the Chevy Volt. Chrysler’s hires will be working on updating the [...]
Polls have long showed high public opposition to the federal government’s bailout of GM and Chrysler in late 2008 and 2009, but a new poll for the first time shows that opposition slipping below 50 percent. The Detroit News reports:
A new study by the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor concludes that the bailout of General Motors and Chrysler in 2009, with $85 billion in taxpayer money going to the two companies to help them survive the restructuring process of managed bankruptcies, saved 1.4 million jobs. The Detroit News reports:
Among the many revelations in a new book written by former President George. W. Bush is that he met with President-elect Barack Obama shortly after the 2008 election and assured him that he would use federal funds to keep GM and Chrysler alive so that his administration could craft a more permanent solution. The Detroit [...]
The U.S. Department of the Treasury said on Tuesday that it was reducing its projected loss to taxpayers from the bailout of the auto industry in 2009 by 25 percent compared to previous projections. The Detroit News reports:
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 [...]
The New York Times says that the remarkable turnaround of the Big Three automakers is turning Detroit from a city of despair into an “economic bright spot” at a time when the national economy struggles to go from recession to recovery. Citing a “growing sense that the changes are turning the Big Three around,” the [...]
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