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.
Weeks after United Auto Workers members approved a new deal with General Motors, the union’s Ford workers ratified a new collective bargaining agreement with the only major American automaker not to go through bankruptcy in 2009.
The United Auto Workers ratified the first new collective bargaining agreement with General Motors after 2009′s managed bankruptcy kept the automaker alive. The deal is good for four years.
With the UAW’s contracts with the Big Three automakers already expired and operating under an extension, it appears that General Motors will be the first to strike a new deal that gives back some of the concessions workers made to help the company survive bankruptcy in 2009.
The Big Three American automakers all showed significant increases in sales over the same month in 2010, with General Motors leading the way at 29 percent, Chrysler at 23 percent and Ford at 12 percent.
Assuming market conditions remain favorable and a bond sale goes well, the new Chrysler — less than two years removed from bankruptcy — says it will have the federal government paid back for loans it made to keep the company afloat by the time August rolls around.
A federal bankruptcy judge has approved a plan to create a $773 million environmental trust to oversee the cleanup of former General Motors sites in Michigan and 13 other states.
Domestic auto sales in February were up 27 percent over the same month a year ago, led by a staggering 46 percent increase for General Motors. Ford posted gains of 10 percent while Chrysler jumped 13 percent. The annualized sales were 13.4 million vehicles, far surpassing analysts’ expectations.
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.
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.
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