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.
The Detroit Free Press reports that the health care reform bills being debated in the nation’s capitol include a provision that would supply up to $10 billion to shore up the UAW’s Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) fund, which was established in the last round of labor negotiations to allow the union to control and [...]
Ron Bloom, the new chairman of President Obama’s auto taskforce, told reporters that he doesn’t think an Initial Public Offering of stock in the newly restructured Chrysler Group LLC will happen in 2010 as some had previously predicted. He thinks the following year is more likely, according to the Detroit News:
The Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association, the UAW-run healthcare trust fund that will have a 17.5% stake in the new General Motors when it emerges from bankruptcy, has chosen its allotted member of the new board of directors: former GM adviser Stephen Girsky. Girsky was an adviser to GM in their search for a buyer for [...]
In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, a member of President Obama’s auto taskforce said that there was no specific timetable for selling off the government’s stake in GM and Chrysler. Automotive News reports:
After an emergency meeting of local union leaders and executives, the UAW announced Wednesday that they are willing to make changes to their contract with the Big Three automakers to reduce labor costs and help the auto industry survive as the economic downturn leads to dramatic sales reductions.
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