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State Postal Code: MI: Michigan State Abbreviation Mich. State
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Michigan state is bordered by the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin. Michigan is also bordered by the country of Canada and the Canadian province of Ontario. Michigan consists of two peninsulas that are surrounded by the Great Lakes of Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, and Lake Superior and touches part of Lake Erie. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
 Michigan
MICHIGAN News:
 John
McCain -  Cindy
McCain -  Barack
Obama -  Auto
-  Workers
-  Homes
- Michigan
- 2008
Election
"All the Candidates’ Cars." ... "When you have seven homes [McCain], that's a lot of garages to fill. " ... "And based on public vehicle-registration records, here's the score. John and Cindy McCain: 13. Barack and Michelle Obama: one." ... "One vehicle in the McCain fleet has caused a small flap. United Auto Workers president Ron Gettelfinger, an Obama backer, accused McCain this month of "flip-flopping" on who bought daughter Meghan's foreign-made Toyota Prius. McCain said last year that he bought it, but then told a Detroit [Michigan] TV station on [September] Sept. 7 that Meghan "bought it, I believe, herself." (The McCain campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)" ... "Obama's lone vehicle also is a green machine, a 2008 Ford Escape hybrid." -By Keith Naughton and Hilary Shenfeld -Newsweek 
Michigan
-  Economic
-  History
- Auto
-  Manufacturing
"[Michigan] State's jobless rate is 8.5%: Unemployed number remains steady as work force drops by 33,000. U.S. [United States] average is 5.7%." ... "The state's unemployment rate remained stubbornly high at 8.5 percent in July, the third consecutive month the jobless rate remained at a level not seen since the recession of the early '90s." ... "The rate remained steady not because the state stopped losing jobs -- a total of 29,000 positions were cut by employers with few new jobs added -- but because the number of people in the work force fell by 33,000." ... "Michigan's jobless rate -- far higher than the national rate of 5.7 percent -- is another sign the woes of the auto industry continue to grip the state. Since July 2007, the number of unemployed workers in the state has increased by 65,000 or 18.4 percent." ... ""With somewhat more than half of the year already in the books, it is pretty obvious that 2008 will be the fifth consecutive year of recession for Michigan," said Dana Johnson, chief economist for Comerica Inc." -By Louis Aguilar -DetNews.com 
Michigan
- Economy
"Foreclosure fallout: Houses go for a $1." ... "One dollar can get you a large soda at McDonald's, a used VHS movie at 7-Eleven or a house in Detroit [Michigan]." ... "The fact that a home on the city's east side was listed for $1 recently shows how depressed the real estate market has become in one of America's poorest big cities." ... "And it still took 19 days to find a buyer." ... "The sale price of the home may be an anomaly, but illustrates both the depths of the foreclosure crisis in Detroit and the rapid scuttling of vacant homes in some of the city's impoverished neighborhoods." ... "The home, at 8111 Traverse Street, a few blocks from Detroit City Airport, was the nicest house on the block when it sold for $65,000 in November 2006, said neighbor Carl Upshaw. But the home was foreclosed last summer, and it wasn't long until "the vultures closed in," Upshaw said. "The siding was the first to go. Then they took the fence. Then they broke in and took everything else."" ... "The company hired to manage the home and sell it, the Bearing Group, boarded up the home only to find the boards stolen and used to board up another abandoned home nearby." ... "Scrappers tore out the copper plumbing, the furnace and the light fixtures, taking everything of value, including the kitchen sink." ... "So desperate was the bank owner of 8111 Traverse Street to unload the property that it agreed to pay $2,500 in sales commission and another $1,000 bonus for closing the $1 sale; the bank also will pay $500 of the buyer's closing costs. Throw in back taxes and a water bill, and unloading the house will cost the bank about $10,000." -By Ron French -DetNews.com
Homes
-  Nevada
-  Florida
- Phoenix
-  Arizona
- Los
Angeles - San
Diego - San
Francisco -  California
- Florida
- Michigan
-  Minnesota
-  Illinois
-  Ohio
-  Georgia
-  New
York - Seattle
-  Washington
-  Massachusetts
- Portland
-  Oregon
-  Colorado
-  Texas
-  North
Carolina
"Home prices down 15.8% in past year, S&P says: Seven of 20 cities tally monthly price gains in May, Case-Shiller data show." ... "Prices in 10 cities fell 16.9% in the past year." ... "Prices thus are at the same levels as they were in the summer of 2004, which means four years of appreciation have been effectively wiped out. Prices are down 18.4% from peak levels seen two years ago." ... "Here's a list of the 20 cities in the Case-Shiller index with the annual decline through May: Las Vegas [Nevada], down 28.4%; Miami [Florida], down 28.3%; Phoenix [Arizona], down 26.5%; Los Angeles [California], down 24.5%; San Diego [California], down 23.2%; San Francisco [California], down 22.9%; Tampa [Florida], down 20.2%; Detroit [Michigan], down 17.4%; Washington [DC], down 15.4%; Minneapolis [Minnesota], down 14.8%; Chicago [Illinois], down 9.4%; Cleveland [Ohio], down 8%; Atlanta [Georgia], and New York [City, New York], both down 7.9%; Seattle [Washington], down 6.3%; Boston [Massachusetts], down 6.2%; Portland [Oregon], down 5.2%; Denver [Colorado], down 4.8%; Dallas [Texas], down 3.1%; and Charlotte, N.C. [North Carolina], down 0.2%." -By Rex Nutting -MarketWatch 
 Hillary
Clinton -  Accounting
-  Politics
- Florida
- Michigan
-  Iowa
-  Puerto
Rico - Nevada
- Washington
-  Maine
- Barack
Obama - 2008
Election - "Hillary:
Peddling pop vote canards to the end." ... "The facts,
which must be repeated:" ... "[2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate]
Hillary [Clinton] does not lead in the popular vote by any measure other
than her own idiosyncratic belief that Florida should count even though
it didn't and hundreds of thousands of Floridians didn't vote because they
were told it wouldn't; that Puerto Rico should count even though Puerto
Ricans can't vote in the general election ("lead us to victory in November"???);
that Michigan should also count even though it didn't and thousands of
Michiganders didn't vote because they were told it wouldn't and she was
the only person on the ballot; that Obama should get zero votes -- Zero!!!
-- from Michigan ["Uncommited" received 238,168 votes, Clinton received
328,309 votes]; and that Obama also should get no votes from four states
that he won [Iowa, Nevada, Washington, and Maine], because they held caucuses
and didn't count the popular vote." -By John Riley
-Newsday.com
[NYTimes photo]  WATCH
full video: "John Edwards Endorses Barack Obama."
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Home-Prices
- History
- Seattle
- Washington
- Portland
- Ore
- Nevada
- Florida
- Phoenix
- Arizona
- San
Diego - California
- Michigan
- NC
- "U.S.
home prices fall 10.7% in January, Seattle's drop 1.3%."
... "U.S. [United States] home prices fell 10.7 percent in January from
the same month last year, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller
home-price index of 20 cities, which saw the steepest decline in the two-decade
history of the index." ... "Seattle[Washington]-area home prices were among
the decliners, although the annual drop was a slight 1.3 percent. Only
Portland, Ore. [Oregon], posted a smaller annual decline, 0.5 percent."
... "Worst hit were Las Vegas [Nevada] and Miami [Florida], both reporting
19.3 percent drops, as the regions are still paying the price for rampant
speculation and overbuilding during the boom years. Those cities and 14
others — including Phoenix [Arizona], San Diego [California] and Detroit
[Michigan] — posted record lows." ... "Only Charlotte, N.C. [North Carolina],
squeaked by as a gainer in the Case-Shiller index, with a 1.8 percent increase
in January compared with a year earlier." -By Vinnee
Tong with contributions by Dan Caterinicchia
-AP via -SeattleTimes
2008
Election - Florida
- Michigan
- Colorado
- "Choice
of Democratic nominee may rest with panel: Convention's
Credentials Commitee could have to decide on Fla., Mich. delegates." ...
"There are 186 people in this country who ultimately could select the Democratic
presidential nominee." ... "Most of them do not know they'll soon wield
such power. They will be picked by their state parties or by the party's
national chairman to be on the Credentials Committee to the Democratic
National Convention. It's normally a political reward, but this year the
job could seem more like punishment." ... "If the dispute over what to
do about Florida and Michigan — whose Democratic primary results have not
been recognized by the party — is not settled by the time Democrats gather
in August in Denver [Colorado], the Credentials Committee will probably
make the call on what to do about delegates from the rogue states, which
defied the party by moving up their primary dates." ... "The committee
could decide whether those delegates are seated at the convention, and
to which candidate they are pledged." ... "The ultimate winner of the nomination
could ride on the outcome." ... "The 186 Democrats that will form the committee
will be chosen during the next several months. DNC Chairman Howard Dean
appoints 25 of them, which he has already done." ... "The others are elected
by the state parties, based on population." -By Aaron
Gould Sheinin -AJC
Joshua
B Bolten
- 
Harriet
E Miers
- 
Michael
B Mukasey
- US
Attorneys - Politics
- 
Investigation
- 
Lawsuit
- 
Federal
- Texas
- Mich
- Calif
- "House
Panel Sues to Force Bush Aides to Table: Bolten and
Miers Ignored Subpoenas In Prosecutor Probe." ... "The House Judiciary
Committee filed a lawsuit yesterday to enforce subpoenas against [Republican]
President Bush's chief of staff and his former counsel in a probe of suspected
White House involvement in the 2006 firings of nine federal prosecutors."
... "The panel filed the federal court suit against Joshua B. Bolten, White
House chief of staff since April 2006, and Harriet E. Miers, a close associate
of Bush's from Texas who resigned as White House counsel in January 2007
after a little more than two years on the job." ... "The lawsuit charges
that Bolten and Miers, who were cited by the House for contempt of Congress
last month, defied committee subpoenas by refusing to testify or provide
documents demanded by the panel." ... "But Attorney General Michael B.
Mukasey said White House aides involved in the case cannot be prosecuted
because they were following legal advice from the Justice Department. He
refused to refer the contempt citation to a grand jury." ... "The refusal
of Bolten and Miers to comply with the subpoenas "did not constitute a
crime," Mukasey said in a Feb. 29 letter to [California Democratic Representative
and] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)." ... "[Michigan Democratic
Representative] Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), the Judiciary Committee
chairman, described Mukasey's refusal as "contrary to federal law" and
said the panel filed the civil lawsuit to enforce the subpoenas." ... "According
to the lawsuit, the committee launched its investigation in part to "examine
allegations of malfeasance, abuse of authority and violations of existing
laws by Executive Branch personnel."" ... "It says the year-long investigation
"has uncovered substantial evidence" that the Bush administration and Justice
Department "injected partisan considerations into the forced resignations
or retention of U.S. attorneys."" ... "It cites "credible evidence" that
U.S. attorneys who "failed to return desired indictments or failed to bring
voter fraud prosecutions that were considered politically useful to the
administration were forced to resign," as were those who "prosecuted officeholders
allied with the administration."" -By William Branigin
-WashingtonPost
Water
- 
Drugs
- 
Human
- 
Health
- 
Environmental
- 
Science
- Investigation
- Industry
- Consumer
- Safety
- Federal
- Law
- 
Earth
- Wildlife
- California
- 
New
Jersey - Michigan
- 
Ky
- "Sex
Hormones, Mood Stabilizers Found In Drinking Water Of 41 M Americans."
... "A vast array of pharmaceuticals _ including antibiotics, anti-convulsants,
mood stabilizers and sex hormones _ have been found in the drinking water
supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated
Press investigation shows." ... "To be sure, the concentrations of
these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion
or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose. Also, utilities insist
their water is safe." ... "But the presence of so many prescription drugs
_ and over-the-counter medicines like acetaminophen and ibuprofen _ in
so much of our drinking water is heightening worries among scientists of
long-term consequences to human health." ... "In the course of a five-month
inquiry, the AP discovered that drugs have been detected in the drinking
water supplies of 24 major metropolitan areas _ from Southern California
to Northern New Jersey, from Detroit [Michigan] to Louisville, Ky. [Kentucky.]"
... "How do the drugs get into the water?" ... "People take pills. Their
bodies absorb some of the medication, but the rest of it passes through
and is flushed down the toilet. The wastewater is treated before it is
discharged into reservoirs, rivers or lakes. Then, some of the water is
cleansed again at drinking water treatment plants and piped to consumers.
But most treatments do not remove all drug residue." ... "And while researchers
do not yet understand the exact risks from decades of persistent exposure
to random combinations of low levels of pharmaceuticals, recent studies
_ which have gone virtually unnoticed by the general public _ have found
alarming effects on human cells and wildlife." ... "The federal government
doesn't require any testing and hasn't set safety limits for drugs in water."
... "The AP's investigation also indicates that watersheds, the natural
sources of most of the nation's water supply, also are contaminated." ...
"Even users of bottled water and home filtration systems don't necessarily
avoid exposure. Bottlers, some of which simply repackage tap water, do
not typically treat or test for pharmaceuticals, according to the industry's
main trade group. The same goes for the makers of home filtration systems."
... "Pharmaceuticals also permeate aquifers deep underground, source of
40 percent of the nation's water supply." -By Jeff
Donn, Martha Mendoza, and Justin Pritchard
-AssociatedPress via -HuffingtonPost.com
Drug
- Safety
- 
US
- 
China
- Manufacturers
- Corporate
- Government
- Database
- Politics
- Michigan
- "FDA
Says It Approved The Wrong Drug Plant: Heparin Probe
Sends Inspectors to China." ... "The Chinese facility that supplies the
active ingredient of the widely used blood thinner heparin was never inspected
by the [Republican President Bush's] Food and Drug Administration because
the agency confused its name with another just like it, agency officials
said yesterday." ... "More than 350 adverse reactions to the drug have
been reported to the FDA since the end of 2007, including a dangerous lowering
of blood pressure, breathing difficulties and vomiting. Four patients who
took the drug died. One of its two manufacturers, Baxter International,
stopped selling its multiple-dose vials of heparin earlier this month,
and yesterday the FDA advised doctors to prescribe alternatives." ... "Millions
of people each year are given the drug during dialysis or to prevent complications
from surgery, but the FDA has never checked the Chinese plant where the
active ingredient is made." ... "[Michigan Democratic Representative John]
Dingell noted that the agency seems uncertain even of the number of foreign
drugmakers, with one database saying there are 7,000 while another counts
3,000." -By Marc Kaufman
-WashingtonPost
Corporate
- Government
- Drug
- Manufacturing
- Safety
- Politics
- Investigation
- 
Wisconsin
- Michigan
- US- China
- "F.D.A.
Broke Its Rules by Not Inspecting Chinese Plant With Problem Drug."
... "The Food and Drug Administration [overseen by Republican President
Bush] violated its own policies when it approved for sale a crucial blood-thinning
drug without first inspecting a Chinese plant which, along with a plant
in Wisconsin, made the drug’s active pharmaceutical ingredient." ... "“It
was obviously a glitch” that the drug, heparin, produced and sold by Baxter
International, was approved for sale without a plant inspection, said Karen
Riley, an F.D.A. spokeswoman." ... "[Michigan Democratic] Representative
Bart Stupak, Democrat of Michigan and chairman of a House investigative
subcommittee, said that no matter what happened with the heparin inquiry,
the F.D.A.’s inability to provide basic information about the Chinese manufacturing
plant weeks after concerns were first raised was deeply troubling." ...
"“They can’t tell us if they’ve inspected this plant, what other problems
might have been identified at this plant, or what other U.S. firms might
be getting supplies from this plant,” he said." ... "Over the past year,
a wave of tainted goods from China, including deadly pet food ingredients
and tainted fish, has prompted concern about whether [F.D.A.] regulators
are adequately monitoring imports’ safety." -By
Gardiner
Harris and Walt
Bogdanich with
contributions by Andrew W. Lehren -NYTimes
Josh
Bolten
- Harriet
Miers
- US
Attorneys - Politics
- Investigation
- California
- Michigan
- "House
finds Bolten, Miers in contempt of Congress." ...
"The House voted Thursday to hold [Republican President Bush's] White House
Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers
in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before a panel investigating
the firing of several United States attorneys." ... "The matter will now
be referred to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia." ... "If
the fight comes to a head without a compromise having been reached, it
could pit Congress’s power to hold White officials in contempt against
the president’s right to assert executive privilege." ... "[California
Democratic Representative and Speaker of the House Nancy] Pelosi, who stated
that she “had hoped that this day would never have come,” added that, if
White House officials instruct Department of Justice attorneys not to prosecute
the contempt citations, “we will have power to go to federal court and
seek civil enforcement of our subpoenas.”" ... "[Michigan Democratic Representative
and Judiciary Committee Chairman John] Conyers said he had already discovered
“plenty of evidence of wrongdoing at the Department of Justice. He said
officials made the decision to fire attorneys on the basis of whether they
had pursued public corruption charges against Democratic government officials.
He also said that Justice officials made misleading statements to investigators
minimizing the apparent involvement of White House personnel in the firings."
-By Alexander Bolton and Klaus Marre
-TheHill.com
US
- 
Iraq
- 
Blackwater
- Government
- Politics
- Human
Rights - Law
- Michigan
- "Blackwater
USA steps up lobbying efforts." ... "Private-security
contractor Blackwater Worldwide, which protects U.S. [United States] government
officials in Iraq and faces scrutiny over its role in the shooting deaths
of Iraqi civilians, has ramped up its lobbying representation on Capitol
Hill." ... "Law firm Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice was tapped by
the company, whose chairman is Erik Prince, a Holland [Michigan] native.
They've been hired to lobby the government on contracting and other issues,
according to the form posted online Tuesday by the Senate's public records
office." ... "The company has attracted considerable congressional scrutiny
and criticism from the Iraqi government and human rights groups for its
involvement in several dozen shooting incidents." ... "Prince, a former
Navy SEAL, is a Holland native whose family fortune was made in the auto
parts industry. His sister, Betsy DeVos, a former chairwoman of the Michigan
GOP [Grand Old Party=Republican], is married to Dick DeVos, a Republican
and Amway Corp. heir who unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2006."
-AP via -MLive.com
Auto
- Makers
- History
- 
Japan
- US
- Michigan
- "Fewest
vehicles sold in 9 years: Ford takes 12% hit; Toyota
rises to No. 2." ... "Auto sales last year fell to their lowest level since
1998, with domestic automakers bearing the brunt of the decline. And the
industry is bracing for a grim first half of 2008 because of the uncertain
economy and ailing housing market." ... "Ford Motor Co., which began reducing
inventories in August 2006 through production cuts, ended the year with
533,000 vehicles in stock, 37,000 fewer than 2006 and 200,000 less than
in 2005." ... "Ford, however, also took the biggest hit among major manufacturers
in 2007 sales, sliding 12 percent, to 2.56 million. That enabled Toyota
Motor Corp. to pass it and take second place in the U.S. Toyota's sales
rose 2.7 percent for the year, to 2.62 million, its 12th consecutive year
of record sales." ... "General Motors Corp's sales fell 6 percent in 2007,
to 3.82 million, but GM ended the year with 900,000 vehicles in stock,
147,000 fewer than a year earlier and its lowest year-end inventory in
13 years." ... "Chrysler LLC, whose sales were off 3 percent last year,
to 2.08 million, also ended the year with lean inventory, 438,000 vehicles.
That was the lowest since 1994 and down from 538,000 last year, when Chrysler
was twisting dealers' arms to take more vehicles than they expected to
sell." ... "Industrywide, new-vehicle sales fell 3 percent in December,
to 1.39 million, and were off 2.5 percent, to 
