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.
A new report by a University of Michigan economics group says that the Michigan economy has started growing faster than previously expected and is now likely to create far more jobs this year and predicted earlier.
As the census numbers continue to come in, the news gets worse and worse for Michigan. Households in Michigan saw their incomes drop faster than any other state by a huge margin over the last decade. The Detroit News reports:
I’m sure a little good news for the economy is welcome during times like these, so here are a couple of hopeful tidbits. The Detroit News reports that the Big Three automakers are all looking at recalling laid off workers in order to boost production as domestic auto sales has shown signs of recovering over [...]
A new report from the University of Michigan’s Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics concludes that while we may be nearing the end of the worst decline, job growth in Michigan will continue to be virtually non-existent until 2011 — and it won’t exactly be going like gangbusters after that. The Detroit News reports:
No state has been harder hit by the recession than Michigan, which leads the nation in unemployment at more than 15%, but a new study from Comerica Bank indicates that the state’s economy took a jump in August that might continue over the next few months. A press release on the study says:
The bad news for Michigan-based businesses continues to pour in. Ann Arbor-based Borders Group, one of the largest bookstores chains in America, issued a press release announcing that they are replacing their Chief Executive Officer and most of the top management in the company.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago has issued a new report on manufacturing in the Midwest states of Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. The report shows that manufacturing output in those states has sunk to the lowest levels in 12 years.
Candidate’s wife to host discussion about women workers in Michigan. Michelle Obama is scheduled to host a town-hall-style meeting in Pontiac on Wednesday, the Obama campaign announced. She will use the opportunity to discuss the impact of the economy on women and families in Michigan, and she likely will address how her husband, presumptive Democratic [...]
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