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.
Several items of interest have been reported in the last few days regarding the auto industry. Here are a few of them: Nissan projects huge losses, job cuts The Big Three American automakers are not the only ones suffering from financial woes; the Japanese automakers are in a similar situation. Nissan had huge losses in [...]
The end of year sales figures for 2008 show that General Motors (NYSE:GM) did not lead the world in car sales for the first time in 77 years. GM sold 8.36 million cars in 2008, while Toyota (NYSE:TM) sold 8.97 million cars.
They will if Congress — and Detroit’s critics — come to understand that the auto industry is infrastructure.
Back when I was a copy editor for The Detroit News a decade ago, our ultraconservative editorial page would go on red-faced tirades against then-Vice President Al Gore for his prediction of the end of the internal combustion engine. Today, The Detroit News is on its way out and, well, so is the internal combustion [...]
The Big Three automakers are not alone in shutting down their plants for a period of time to deal with flagging sales and too much inventory. Toyota is doing the same thing:
Consumer Reports, seeking to help the Big Three automakers recover from the current downturn, has moved up the publication of its usual annual recommendations of the best new cars from April to February. Ford dominates the list of recommended vehicles, but GM garnered some praise as well:
AP reports that a Japanese publication has revealed that Toyota is secretly working on a solar powered car:
Automotive News reports that Toyota is putting plans to build Prius hybrids at a plant in Mississippi on indefinite hold due to the financial problems plaguing the auto industry:
Though one might think the potential demise of major competitors would be good for Japanese automakers like Toyota and Honda, the Associated Press reports that the opposite is true:
The American automakers are not the only ones being hit hard by dramatic sales decreases in America and around the world. Automotive News reports that Toyota is cutting bonuses, production and management salaries in order to stay financially healthy as the world slips further into recession:
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