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.
With the White House opposing his call for closing the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal to prevent the Asian carp from reaching Lake Michigan, Attorney General Mike Cox says he wants to meet with Obama to discuss the issue and the enormous economic and environmental threat to the Great Lakes. The Detroit Free Press reports:
While the outlook for auto sales in 2010 looks to be dramatically improved from 2009, excess capacity and difficult credit markets still plague auto suppliers that were built for a much bigger sales environment. The Detroit News reports:
WASHINGTON – Only a year ago, hopes were high that a big push by the government to stop foreclosures would be a great success, living up to its billing as “Help for America’s Homeowners.”
The Washington Post reported just before midnight Monday that the Obama administration has agreed to acquire a prison in Illinois to house prisoners from Guantanamo Bay Cuba. The critical step toward fulfilling President Obama’s pledge to shut the Guantanamo detention center will be announced Tuesday, said the official, who reported that Obama has ordered the [...]
You might think that the second largest car company in the country might be happy to see the first and third largest car companies go bankrupt and not come back. You’d be wrong. The chairman and heir of Ford Motor Company visited the White House on Monday and praised President Obama for intervening to keep [...]
The Obama administration expects not to recover about one-third of the more than $80 billion the federal government invested in saving Chrysler and General Motors from going through a liquidation bankruptcy. The Detroit News reports:
The Detroit News reports on a new GAO analysis that indicates that the Obama administration put conditions on the loans given to GM and Chrysler that required the companies to maintain most of their current production capacity in the United States rather than outsourcing it to other countries.
With unemployment continuing to climb around the country and in the state of Michigan, which leads the country with over 15% of workers unable to find work, the Obama administration is considering a series of policy options to help those workers through difficult times. The Detroit News reports that the administration is considering extending unemployment [...]
The Associated Press reports that the Obama administration is seriously considering transferring all of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to a joint prison/courtroom complex in the United States and a Michigan prison in Standish is one of the two sites being strongly considered for the location.
WASHINGTON — Even as the Obama administration presses the lending industry to get more mortgage loans modified, the practice of forcing borrowers to sign away their legal rights in order to get their loans reworked is a tactic that some servicers just won’t give up on.
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