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.
It’s been a good week for Chrysler. The United Auto Workers ratified the new collective bargaining agreement with nearly 55 percent of the vote and the company also announced a third quarter profit of more than $200 million.
Despite mixed results in the early voting, it appears likely that the United Auto Workers will ratify a new contract with Chrysler in the next few days.
Ford Motor Company and the United Auto Workers have reached an agreement on a new contract that includes significant signing bonuses and more jobs for autoworkers.
Now that two of the Big Three automakers have survived bankruptcy and returned to profitability, the United Auto Workers say they want the concessions they made to help that process paid back in the next union contracts — with Ford in particular.
LANSING — The Senate Committee on Reforms, Restructuring and Reinventing approved a resolution Wednesday morning that starts the process to revoke partner benefits for unmarried state workers.
Activists from religious groups and labor organizations are planning to simultaneously withdraw all of their accounts from a major bank to protest that bank’s refusal to agree to a two-year moratorium on mortgage foreclosures despite receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer funds during the bank bailouts. The Detroit News reports:
The New York Times says that the remarkable turnaround of the Big Three automakers is turning Detroit from a city of despair into an “economic bright spot” at a time when the national economy struggles to go from recession to recovery. Citing a “growing sense that the changes are turning the Big Three around,” the [...]
Nolan Finley of the Detroit News reports that the state’s major unions — the UAW, AFL-CIO and MEA — “have committed to an intense two-week push to get Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero over the top in the Aug. 3 gubernatorial primary.” He then provides some details of what he’s heard about that push:
Lansing based Democratic consultant Joe DiSano says the Michigan AFL-CIO has voted to endorse Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero for governor.
The recent spate of anonymous — and probably illegal — robocalls targeting Democratic gubernatorial candidates Andy Dillon and Virg Bernero didn’t contain any outright falsehoods, but they did mix in a bit of spin and distortion along with the facts.
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