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NEWS ABOUT: Michigan

Michigan stories: 120 news summaries

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 Detroit's 
 Silverdome 
 Sells for 1% 
 of $56M Cost 

Stunning bargain sale marks state's desperation

Nov 19, 09 2:06 AM CST
(Newser) - In a stunning sign of the imploding economy, Detroit is selling its $56 million sports dome for a bargain basement $580,000. The 80,000-seat Pontiac Silverdome, once home to the Detroit Lions, went for 1 percent of the cost to build it 35 years ago. The city of Pontiac... More »

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Detroit • Michigan • Pontiac • auto industry • economic crisis • Pontiac Silverdome

9 Other States Have Calif.-Sized Fiscal Messes

Ariz., Fla., Ill., Mich., and NJ among others facing crises

Nov 11, 09 8:14 PM CST
(Newser) - California has by no means cornered the market on enormous financial problems at the state level, with a report out today saying Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin are also at tremendous risk. The Pew Center sees widespread unemployment, huge budget deficits, and the... More »

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Florida • California • Wisconsin • Arizona • New Jersey • Michigan • foreclosure • recession • Oregon • unemployment • Illinois • Nevada • Rhode Island • budget deficit • financial crisis

OPINION

 Downtrodden Detroit 
 Can Rise Again, Green 

Cheap labor, empty factories, can-do legacy scream green revolution

Sep 24, 09 1:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Detroit of Daniel Okrent’s childhood is gone. The “elm-lined streets” of the “City of Homeowners”—“the place that America once knew as the Arsenal of Democracy”—have become “the urban equivalent of a boxer's mouth, more gaps than teeth.” A devastating... More »

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Detroit • Michigan • racism • manufacturing • renewable energy • auto industry • politicians • urban blight • Daniel Okrent

Recession Crushes
White-Collar Michigan

Layoffs, property price plunge leaves middle-aged workers in limbo

Sep 17, 09 1:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tens of thousands of middle-aged white-collar workers have been left jobless and stranded in Michigan by the recession, the Wall Street Journal reports. Auto industry veterans laid off by the Big Three are finding themselves competing against against younger people for a smattering of job openings. With property prices down... More »

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Chrysler • General Motors • Detroit • Michigan • recession • Ford • unemployment • auto industry • Big Three • white collar

Man Shot Anti-Abortion Protester Over 'Grudge'

Gunman also killed a gravel company owner, had a third target

Sep 12, 09 8:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - James Harlan Drake, the 33-year-old trucker who shot noted anti-abortion activist James Pouillon in front of a high school yesterday, also shot a local gravel company owner, and intended to kill a third man before police arrested him. He had “a list in his head,” a police chief... More »

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abortion • murder • Michigan • shooting • anti-abortion activists • James Pouillon • Harlan James Drake

 Mich. Anti-Abortion 
 Activist Killed in Drive-By 

Perp also admits to shooting local business owner; motive unclear

Sep 11, 09 2:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - A prominent anti-abortion protester was gunned down this morning outside a Michigan high school, the Detroit Free Press reports. Owosso High School students were among the witnesses to the drive-by shooting, which police say was committed by a 33-year-old man who was arrested at his home and promptly confessed... More »

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murder • Michigan • protests • shooting • anti-abortion activists • Owosso • drive-by • abortion debate • James Pouillon

(Newser) - Obama administration officials are traveling to Michigan today to visit a maximum-security prison that could be used to hold some or all of the 229 terrorism suspects now at Guantanamo Bay, reports the Detroit News. Members of the Defense, Justice, and Homeland Security Departments are all touring the facility. Local... More »

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prison • Michigan • Guantanamo Bay • federal prison • Guantanamo prisoners • Obama administration • Standish Maximum Security Correctional Facility

(Newser) - When the Obama administration floated Michigan’s Standish Maximum Security Correctional Facility as a possible landing point for Guantanamo Bay detainees yesterday, Gov. Jennifer Granholm and several state legislators swiftly condemned the idea. But residents of the nearby town are perfectly willing to take them, if it saves the endangered... More »

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prison • Michigan • Guantanamo Bay • Jennifer Granholm • budget crisis • Standish Maximum Security Correctional Facility

(Newser) - The rumors of the “cash for clunkers” deal’s demise have been greatly exaggerated, the White House said today, promising that the trade-in program will continue even after consumers have used up its allotted $1 billion. “If you were planning on going to buy a car this weekend... More »

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Detroit • Michigan • Carl Levin • auto industry • Big Three • cars • Obama administration • Robert Gibbs • Cash for Clunkers

Ex-Autoworkers Retool for Lower Paying Jobs

Industry vets remake themselves as truck drivers, nurses' aides

Jul 4, 09 7:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hundreds of thousands of ex-autoworkers left adrift by the industry's implosion are having to learn new skills and get used to lower pay, the Washington Post reports. Community colleges in the auto industry's heartland are jam-packed with midlife workers aiming to qualify quickly to become truck drivers, computer technicians or... More »

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Michigan • unemployment • training • auto industry • auto worker

OPINION

 Top 5 States of Confusion 


Jul 3, 09 12:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - It’s not easy being an elected official in a time of crisis, but a select few governors are having a particularly tough time. And some of them are even trying to get reelected. Politico looks at the 5 worst-off states:
  • California: No surprise here. The state's issuing
... More »

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California • Arizona • Jon Corzine • New Jersey • New York • Arnold Schwarzenegger • Michigan • recession • unemployment • Jennifer Granholm • state legislature • budget deficit • David Paterson • Jan Brewer

(AP) - The FBI says DNA testing confirms that a 54-year-old Michigan man is not a toddler kidnapped in Long Island in 1955. John Barnes is not Stephen Damman, who disappeared at age 2 from outside an East Meadow bakery while his mother shopped. Barnes says he has long suspected the couple... More »

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FBI • Michigan • missing child • DNA evidence • John Barnes • Stephen Damman

(Newser) - Governors are more than a little reluctant to house Guantanamo Bay detainees in their state prisons, the Washington Times reports. The paper asked a variety of governors’ offices if they’d be willing to take the prisoners, including those from states whose congressmen support the idea of shutting Gitmo.... More »

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Vermont • Michigan • Guantanamo Bay • federal prison • governor

(AP) - In the wake of this morning's bankruptcy filing, GM will permanently close nine more plants and idle three others to trim production and labor costs, the AP reports. Assembly plants in Pontiac, Mich., and Wilmington, Del., will close this year; plants in Spring Hill, Tenn., and Orion, Mich., will shut... More »

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Florida • Boston • bankruptcy • General Motors • Ohio • Michigan • Virginia • Tennessee • Delaware • auto industry • Big Three

investigation

Stimulus Hasn't Reached States That Need It Most


May 28, 09 10:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - The states President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package was most intended to help aren’t yet getting much out of it, USA Today reports after analyzing government contracts. The eight states with unemployment rates higher than 10% have seen an average of $7.42 per person from the... More »

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contractors • Michigan • Oregon • unemployment • North Dakota • economic stimulus package • President Obama • federal agencies • stimulus funds

Would-Be Car-Battery Kings Jostle Over $2.4B From Feds

States seek to become lithium-ion capital of US

May 26, 09 9:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Some 165 companies and states are battling for a $2.4 billion Obama administration grant aimed at making the US a leader in electric-car batteries, the Wall Street Journal reports. General Motors, Dow Chemical, and General Electric are among the firms vying for the money; states like Michigan, Kentucky, and... More »

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energy • General Motors • General Electric • Kentucky • Massachusetts • Michigan • funding • auto industry • grants • lithium ion batteries • Dow Chemical Co. • Department of Energy • Obama administration

(Newser) - President Obama’s campaign manager says he’s a “wee bit queasy” about a possible election challenge from Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman in 2012, Salt Lake City’s KTVX-TV reports. “I think he’s really out there speaking a lot of truth about the direction of the party,... More »

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Michigan • Utah • Jon Huntsman • David Plouffe • governor • Republican presidential primaries • Obama administration • Election 2012 • President Obama • challenger

(Newser) - The unemployment rate in California rose to 11.2% in March, the Los Angeles Times reports today. A loss of 62,100 jobs puts the state at the highest jobless level since 1976, when recording started. It trails only Michigan (12.6%), Oregon (12.1%), and South Carolina (11.4%).... More »

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California • South Carolina • Michigan • recession • Oregon • unemployment • jobless

(Newser) - Muslims consider canines unclean, which was a problem for a blind Muslim woman who wanted a guide dog. So she got a guide horse. Mona Ramouni of suburban Detroit is getting used to 3-year-old miniature horse Cali—“this is a really awesome little horse,” she told the AP—... More »

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Islam • Detroit • Michigan • Muslim • disability • blindness • braille • guide dog • miniature horse • animal trainer

 Hoe-town: 
 10K-Acre Farm 
 Eyed for Detroit 

Michigan investors seek to turn deserted streets into cropland

Apr 7, 09 5:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Motor City could turn into Maize City if a Michigan investment group has its way and turns 10,000 acres of largely deserted streets into farm plots, reports BusinessGreen. Hanz Group hopes eventually to acquire almost 10% of Detroit's 143 square miles for development into cropland, Christmas tree and lumber... More »

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investors • Detroit • Michigan • crops • farm • cash crops • economy • fiscal crisis • Motor City

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