FENNVILLE, Mich. - The bad news keeps coming to Michigan, a state long stuck in recession and at ground zero in the national economic downturn. But unlike in months and years past, there are no exceptions to the despair, not even here among the bucolic resort communities along Lake Michigan. The flailing auto industry is important here, but so is furniture-building, tourism, the retail trade and construction - pieces of the economy long buffered from the downturn in Detroit. Now waves of layoffs are sweeping towns around here in wine country and elsewhere across the state, swelling the ranks...
Sunday, 01 March 2009
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Michigan skiing: Good choice in bad economy 
Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
BOYNE FALLS, Mich. -- For most of his 66 years, Tom Fanning has been an avid skier, relishing the challenge of steep mountainside runs in Colorado, Montana and Wyoming. But the investment adviser from the Detroit suburb of Birmingham doesn't have to...
H.E.A.T. Reports Shift in Auto-Related Crime Activity
Insurance Newsnet
Insurance Newsnet
Auto Thefts Down, Carjackings and Fraud on the Rise LIVONIA, Mich., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ --H.E.A.T. (Help Eliminate Auto Thefts) responded today to 2007 statistics released by the Automobile Theft Prevention Authority (ATPA) that indicate a decrease...
Autos help, carbon limits tied
Detroit news
Detroit news
Obama budget pays for more efficient U.S. car fleet using emissions 'cap and trade' program. WASHINGTON -- The 2010 budget that President Obama outlined Thursday promises a 10-year, $150 billion effort that could help domestic carmakers produce...
GM kills plan for new Michigan small-engine plant
The News & Observer
The News & Observer
DETROIT -- General Motors Corp. has scrapped plans to build a new factory to make engines for the Chevrolet Volt, instead choosing the less-costly option of assembling the engines at an existing plant. The troubled automaker said Tuesday that it...
Teacher corps could reverse Michigan's brain drain
Detroit news
Detroit news
Katy Kelly is the kind of young Michiganian of which state leaders dream. While hundreds of other top graduates from the University of Michigan and Michigan State University were fleeing the Great Lakes state's recession, Kelly wanted to stay -- and...
Colleges keep students in school with extra aid
Denver Post
Denver Post
Click photo to enlargeJasmine Young studies at Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009. The 18-year-old already was behind on last semester's bills and her mother had been laid off from her job with a southeast Michigan auto...
GM said to be in talks to reclaim Delphi plants
Philadelphia Daily News
Philadelphia Daily News
TOM KRISHER The Associated Press DETROIT - General Motors Corp. is in talks with its former parts arm Delphi Corp. about taking back some Delphi factories that make key parts for GM vehicles, a person familiar with the negotiations said Monday. Troy,...
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