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.
Barbara Weiland stopped at the Occupy Lansing encampment in Reutter Park Wednesday morning to drop off knitted hats and scarves she had made. She ended up taking up a sign and marching with a small contingent to the downtown Lansing Bank of America branch where the group protested the bank’s bailout money and foreclosure practices.
DETROIT — Having secured another four years in office with an election victory Tuesday night, Mayor Dave Bing is continuing with business. One of the mayor’s pressing concerns is getting municipal unions to concede to major cuts to pay and benefits, something that has challenged the mayor since he was first elected in May and [...]
It’s Friday, the day that 113 bus drivers were slated for layoffs. But after bus riders protested the cuts by the hundreds, the layoff knife cut into other departments. Mayor Dave Bing announced today in a statement that employees from various departments not including Fire, Police, Water, and DDOT received layoff notices today, according to [...]
DETROIT—According to Mayor Dave Bing’s top administrator Charles Beckham, 113 bus drivers will be laid off on Friday. Among them are the drivers booked for weekend routes. With the city bus system 113 drivers short, city officials are still have not decided how the schedules will change. At a special city council meeting on Tuesday [...]
DETROIT — Mayor Dave Bing on Friday told reporters that the city may run out of cash this fall if massive cuts aren’t made before October. In order to avoid payless paydays and state receivership, Bing said that he and his administration are looking to eliminate entire departments and impose layoffs. “The city has a [...]
Amid a gloomy week for local media, the Lansing State Journal has completed 26 layoffs as part of a larger cut to the work force in media giant Gannett. Gannett has ordered a reduction of its payroll by 1,400 people, according to a story on the Lansing State Journal’s website. Two other employees had their [...]
The economic downturn and declining fortunes of traditional media organizations are continuing to take its toll on Michigan news outlets. Among those facing an uncertain future are papers and television stations owned by the Journal Register Co., Young Broadcasting and Gannett.
Grand Rapids-based Steelcase announced Tuesday that it will lay off 200 white-collar employees. The move comes as the office furniture maker released its first-quarter earnings report showing that while the company broke even, sales plunged 33 percent, according to The Grand Rapids Press. In addition to the white collar layoffs, company officials said “some smaller [...]
With all of the job cuts among the Big Three, the American auto industry will soon be nearly half the size it was a mere six years ago. GM announced the latest cut on Feb. 10. GM said it will cut 10,000 white-collar jobs worldwide in 2009, including about 3,400 in the United States. In [...]
As General Motors and Chrysler prepare their restructuring plans that have to be turned in to Congress on Feb. 17, GM may be preparing to lay off thousands of white collar salaried employees to match the layoffs in blue collar autoworkers. Bloomberg News reports:
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