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.
Michigan-based Dow Chemical (NYSE:DOW) has been forced to scrap a plan to develop a subsidiary in the Middle East after the government of Kuwait pulled out of the arrangement. AP reports:
Kuwait’s government on Sunday scrapped a $17.4 billion joint venture with U.S. petrochemical giant Dow Chemical after criticism from lawmakers that could have led to a political crisis in this small oil-rich state.
The Cabinet, in a statement carried by the state-owned Kuwait News Agency, said the venture, known as K-Dow Petrochemicals, was “very risky” in light of the global financial crisis and low oil prices.
The partnership between Dow and the small but wealthy Middle Eastern nation was slated to begin on January 1. The $7.5 billion investment from the Kuwaiti government had been the subject of withering criticism in that country and was viewed as too risky an expenditure given global economic problems and the collapse of oil prices.
This is more bad news for the Michigan economy as the new company was to be headquartered in Detroit. It adds to the woes for Dow, which has reduced its workforce by more than 10% and shut down nearly two dozen factories as their financial fortunes have sagged along with the rest of the nation.
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