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Chrysler & GM: What Happens if Your Car Blows Up?

Don McNay | Posted 07.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Injury Victims, Trial Lawyers, Ford Pinto, American Bar Association, Uaw, Toyota, Bankruptcy, Tort Reform, Chrysler, GM Bankruptcy, Honda, Bailouts, Kentucky, Don McNay, Ford, Buick, Structured Settlements, American Association for Justice, Insurance, General Motors, Product Liability, Richmond Ky, Hyundai, Traumatic Brain Injury, Lexington KY, Aaa, Detroit Bailout, Detroit, Aaj, Personal Responsibility, Auto Bailout, Personal Finance, Business News

I know I'll never forget that horrible sight, I guess I found out for myself that everyone was right. Won't come back from Dead Man's Curve. -Jan a...

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New GM, Chrysler Leaders -- Wrong for the Jobs

Steve Parker | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Alixpartners, Chrysler, Obama Auto Team, Sergio Marchionne Fiat, Washington DC, Cars, Fiat, Daimler, Cerberus Capital Management, Robert Nardelli, General Motors Bankruptcy, Robert Kidder, Al Koch, Detroit, Cinquecento, China, Duracell, Business News

The Harvard MBAs in the auto executive suites wouldn't know a good car if they got run over by one. And ultimately it's the cars which are going to save GM and Chrysler.

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After GM and Chrysler Bankruptcies -- What Now?

Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm | Posted 07.20.2009 | Home

Read More: Autos, Chevy Volt, Bankruptcy, Big Three Automakers, Green Jobs, General Motors, Chrysler, Evolving Energy Tech, Hybrid Cars, Electric Cars, Detroit Three, Detroit, Gm, Manufacturing, Clean Energy, Green Energy, Michigan, Home News

Despite the news about GM filing for bankruptcy, my state should not be the object of pity. We will not be victims: We intend to lead the country in a move from 20th century rust to 21st century green.

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GM Bankruptcy: Best Bet For The Taxpayers' Investment?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business

Read More: General Motors, Bankruptcy, General Motors Bankruptcy, Detroit, Detroit Bailout, Business News

Detroit couldn't be allowed to collapse. It was one of the very few things the Obama transition team and the outgoing Bush administration agreed on in...

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Goodbye, GM

Michael Moore | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Uaw, Bankruptcy, Flint, General Motors, Alternative Energy, Michael Moore, United Auto Workers, Gm, Detroit, Roger & Me, Green Energy, Pollution, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Business News

Let's be clear about this: The only way to save GM is to kill GM. Saving our precious industrial infrastructure, though, is another matter and must be a top priority.

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First, Stop the Hemorrhaging

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 06.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Automakers, Auto Bailout, Automaker Bailout, Rainbow Coalition, Economic Stimulus Package, Unemployment, Chrysler, Gm, Detroit, Reindustrializing the US, Stimulus, Auto Industry, Detroit Bailout, Business News

Clearly, the hemorrhaging of jobs is outpacing the stimulus. We need a new, comprehensive strategy, a bailout plan that is connected directly to reinvesting in and reindustrializing America.

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Who Will Be The Next Big Auto Company? (POLL)

forbes.com | Posted 06.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Slidepoll, Tesla Motors, Electric Cars, Cars, Fisker Automotive, Detroit-Michigan, Green Cars, Detroit, Green News

Forbes just ran a story about "the next Detroit" -- a couple of companies that want to be the next big American thing in cars. What do you think is t...

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Thank God It's Thursday: The High Strung Plays Guantanamo Bay, Beyoncé Discounts What You Pay, and Woody Allen's So Far Away

Mike Ragogna | Posted 06.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Alessandra Ferri, Broken Social Scene, Charity, Spoletto 52, Woody Allen, Gitmo, Guantanamo, Jacksonville, Derek Berk, Los Campesinons, Pina Bausch, Alexei Ratmansky, Tanztheater Wuppertal, London, England, The High Strung, Guantanamo Bay, Ticketmaster, Feeding America, Wayne McGregor, Robert Wilson, Super Furry Animals, Park the Van Records, Detroit, Florida, Memorial Day, Krapp's Last Tape, Library, Beyoncé, General Mills, Madison Sqare Garden, American Ballet Theatre, Christopher Wheeldon, Las Vegas, Thierry Mugler, New York, Giorgio Ferrara, Festival Dei 2 Mondi, David Newfield, telegraph.co.uk, Hamburger Helper, O2, Gianni Schicchi, Entertainment News, Samuel Beckett, O2 Arena, Spoletto, Zagreb, Entertainment News

This installment of Thank God It's Thursday plucks some recent press releases (left mostly intact) that might make you say "OMG" or "WTF", or possibly, "Swear you'll never, ever do this again."

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Michigan Will Lead the Green Industrial Revolution

Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm | Posted 06.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Uaw, Chevy Volt, Big Three Automakers, Electric Cars, Detroit, Green Energy, Michigan, Chrysler, Gm, Ford, Green News

Some doubters on this website have advocated "pulling the plug on Detroit." Instead, I invite you to plug in to the power of American ingenuity and American transformation.

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Foreign Companies Will Soon Be Leading Carmakers In U.S.

usnews.com | Rick Newman | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Rick-Newman, Chrysler, Detroit Three, Big Three Automakers, Gm, Ford, Detroit Bailout, Detroit, Subaru, Toyota, Business News

Before long, you'll be more likely to get an American-made car by buying an import brand instead of a Ford, General Motors, or Chrysler vehicle. New d...

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How To Live On $0 A Day: Top Five Places To Be Broke in North America

Lesley Stern | Posted 06.26.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Lifestyle, Humor, Mexico, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Living, Beverly Hills, Real Estate, Napa, Top Cities, Comedy, Detroit, Wasilla, Budget, Financial Advice, Financial Meltdown, Poverty Guide, North America, Comedy News

Lots of solvent people flock to the beautiful Napa Valley. But so far, it's a well kept secret among indigents in the know. The weather is temperate enough to sleep outdoors year round.

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New Tunes On Monday: Elvis Costello, Marshall Crenshaw, eels, Alex Woodard, and Buckwheat Zydeco

Mike Ragogna | Posted 06.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Jim Lauderdale, Warren Hayes, Jim Keltner, Buckwheat Zydeco, Stanlet "Buckwheat Dural, San Diego, E, Warner Bros., Hombre Lobo, Parallel Worlds Parallel Lives, Mike Piersante, Lafayette, Music Row, Dan Bern, Memphis Minnie, Captain Beefheart, Jeff Taylor, Hans Christian Andersen, Doc Watson, Zydeco, Jr., Reggae, Marshall Crenshaw, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews, Elvis Costello, Dennis Crouch, CD Baby, Detroit, Kansas Joe McCoy, Sir Reginald Master Durall, Chevrolet, Jerry Boys, Billie Holiday, Switchfoot, Pbs, Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin, Diy, Olivier Scoazac, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Country Music, Kay Electric Guitar, Sara Watkins, Charlie Haden, Greg Leisz, Mark Oliver Everett, Jenny Lind, New Found Glory, American Idol, Hugh Everett, Mike Compton, New Music Weekly, Dobie Gray, New Orleans, Americana, Jason Mraz, Arlo Guthrie, Lee Allen Zeno, Los Lobos, Stuart Duncan, John Mellencamp, Eels, Cool G Murder, Sebastian Steinberg, Tony Millionaire, Nickel Creek, John Hiatt, Sonny Landreth, The Beatles, Cracker Barrel, Nashville, Bo Diddley, Jerry Douglas, P.T. Barnum, Joseph Darion, Kelly Ryan, JJ Grey, Nonesuch Records, Bing Crosby, Emil Richards, Dockside Studios, Alex Woodard, Bob Marley, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Wal-Mart, Louisiana, Kevin Menard, Chess Records, 420, The Roayl Danish Opera, Curtis Watson, Bob Dylan, Nova, Lawrence Coleman, Hammond B-3, Gin Blossoms, Jimmy Cliff, Fender Jazzmaster, Sound Emporium Studios, Emmylou Harris, Shawn Mullins, Steve Berlin, Billboard, T Bone Burnett, Matt Bair, Don Van Vilet, Loretta Lynn, Stewart Lerman, Bruce Springsteen, Knuckles, Wurlitzer, Entertainment News

You've heard Elvis Costello sing country music before, but not like this. The lad who gave us Almost Blue is quite mature and worldly wise now.

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Detroit Newspapers' Traffic, Sales Up Since Home Delivery Reduction

AP | Posted 06.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Detroit Free Press, Newspapers, Detroit News, Detroit Newspapers, Detroit, Detroit-Michigan, Media News

DETROIT — Executives with Detroit's daily newspapers say they have kept more readers and subscribers than they expected, more than a month after...

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Stop the Next American Nightmare

Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Community Reinvestment Act, Predatory Lending, People of Color, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Economy, Detroit, New York Times, Foreclosure, Economic Recovery, Financial Services Modernization Act, Race, New York City, Recession, Housing Crisis, Politics News

We propose including racial impact assessment, a systematic review of potential racial impacts prior to the passage of new laws can help prevent the replication of long-standing and new forms of racial inequality.

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UPDATED: GM Dealerships Closing, SEE THE LIST, INTERACTIVE MAP

Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 06.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Gm Dealerships, Gm Dealerships Closed, Detroit Auto Industry, List of Gm Dealerships Closing, GM Dealers Closing, Gm Dealer Closure List, Gm Dealerships Map, Gm-Dealership-Closing-List, List of Gm Dealers Closing, Gm Closing Dealerships, GM Dealers, Map, Gm Dealership Closures, Interactive Map Gm Dealerships, Gm Closure List, Closed Gm Dealers, Detroit, Gm Dealership Map, Gm Dealerships to Close, General Motors Dealerships Closing, GM Dealerships Closing, Closing Gm Dealerships, Closed Gm Dealerships, What Gm Dealerships Are Closing, Closing Dealerships, Chevrolet Dealers Closing, Gm Closures, Chevrolet Dealerships Closing, Gm Dealership Closure List, Gm, List of Gm Dealerships to Close, Business News

The list of the more than 1,000 dealerships that GM plans to close has begun to trickle in. On Friday, GM dealerships across the country began receivi...

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Stimulus Spending: Detroit Airport Repairs Finished In One Year Instead Of Two

Crain's Detroit Business | Bill Shea | Posted 06.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Economic Stimulus Package, Detroit Airport, Detroit Stimulus, Detroit Stimulus Spending, Detroit, Business News

Reconstruction of one of Detroit Metropolitan Airport's two crosswind runways will be finished in one year instead of two thanks to a $15 million fede...

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Chrysler's Debtors a Throwback to the '30s

Joshua Schoen | Posted 06.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Detroit, Henry Ford, Chrysler, Great Depression, Detroit-Michigan, Business News

America is at a turning point, and if the debtors refuse to restructure, there is sure to be reverberations throughout the economy.

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The Reckoning - Thousands of Dealers to Be Cut This Week

Steve Parker | Posted 06.11.2009 | Business

Read More: National Automobile Dealers Association, Chrysler, Ronald Reagan, General Motors, Opec, Specialty Equipment Market Association, Sema, Saturn Sky, Pontiac Solstice, Detroit, Cars, Obama Administration, Los Angeles Times, Business News

And now, with Chrysler in bankruptcy and General Motors probably in it in another week or so, the other shoe drops. The one that's really about Main S...

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10 Cars That Sunk Detroit (SLIDESHOW)

minyanville.com | Scott Reeves | Posted 06.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Automakers, Detroit Automakers, Auto Bailout, Automaker Bailout, Detroit Three, Detroit, Cars, Auto Industry, Detroit Bailout, Business News

Today's topic: All-American mutts - not the four-legged variety, but the clunkers that killed Detroit. Yup, Detroit's sheer incompetence in design,...

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Ford Motor Will Win Car Wars

Diane Francis | Posted 06.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Detroit, Chrysler, Cars, Automaker Bailout, Big Three Automakers, Gm, Bailout, Bailouts, Ford, Business News

Smart money is betting Ford Motor Co. among Detroit's Final Three even though it's declined to accept any bailouts from governments.. If so, it means that the industry will end up where it started: cheap and simple.

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Detroit: From Socialism to Capitalism

Diane Francis | Posted 06.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Chrysler, Gm, Fiat, Cars, Chrysler Bailout, Canada, Uaw, Detroit, Barack Obama, Car Bailout, Business News

There are many ironies in the Detroit saga, but most striking is the fact that state "socialism" may finally turn North America's car industry players into capitalists.

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When Fiat Met Chrysler

Toby Barlow | Posted 06.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Chrysler, Fiat, Auto Industry, Detroit, Cars, Business News

The meetings occurred behind closed doors, there are no transcripts, and we'll never know exactly what transpired, but through the art of simple deduction we can logically piece together a likely scenario of Fiat and Chrysler's discussions.

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Chrysler Vultures May Win Too

Diane Francis | Posted 05.31.2009 | Business

Read More: Chapter 11, Automakers, Gmac, Chrysler, Auto Bailout, President Obama, Bankruptcy, General Motors, Hedge Funds, Fiat, Caw, Car Woes, Uaw, Auto Industry, Detroit, Cars, Business News

So here's what is next: Chrysler's hedge funds will make money on the deal because the courts will award something.

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Grand Theft Automaker

Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.31.2009 | Business

Nobody expects the administration to right the world economy in a day, but what it can do is make sure each who is owed gets his fair share of the pie.

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Will Michigan's Depression Drag Obama Down?

Susan J. Demas | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Ed Montgomery, Chrysler, Detroit Three, Jennifer Granholm, John Cherry, General Motors, Gm, Detroit, Michigan, Barack Obama, Politics News

Unless Obama proves to Michiganders that he is committed to the state as it bleeds jobs due to government-mandated auto restructuring, 2010 could be a very good Republican year here.

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