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.
Ford Motor Company has filed more than 100 patents seeking to protect its EcoBoost engine, which promises to drive the next generation of more fuel-efficient gasoline engines. The engine combines direct fuel injection and turbocharging to get more horsepower with less fuel, allowing smaller engines to drive larger vehicles and boosting the average fuel economy [...]
In order to meet the challenge of raising the average fuel efficiency of its vehicle fleet more than 10 mpg by 2016, Ford announced a plan to implement more electric and hybrid vehicles and smaller but more powerful gasoline engines into most of its models over the next few years. The rise in fuel efficiency [...]
It was just yesterday that Secretary of Energy Steven Chu came to Michigan to announce $5.9 billion in federal loans to help Ford develop and build the environmentally friendly cars of the future, but already the automaker and their benefactors in Congress are looking to nearly double that amount.
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