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This Might Be The Best Used Car Ad You'll Ever See

The Huffington Post | Sharon Silke Carty | Posted 04.26.2012

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Take a unicorn, promises of fast-growing beards and a teal 1995 Pontiac Grand Am, and what do you get? Possibly the best used car ad you'll ever s...

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More Teacher Layoffs Hit Pontiac Schools

Posted 03.29.2012

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Pontiac schools will lay off 43 teachers and and 52 other employees before the end of the school year, the district announced Wednesday. The layoff...

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Michigan's budget crisis puts democracy on the chopping block

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Heritage Foundation, Mackinac Center, Koch Brothers, Flint, Michigan, Rick Snyder, Pontiac, Detroit News

By Paul Abowd, iWatch NewsWhen the city of Pontiac, Mich., ordered the closing of its fire department in December, Councilman Kermit Williams found ...

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Pontiac's Emergency Manager Could Have Lost the City $850,000

HuffingtonPost.com | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 01.11.2012

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U.S. Rep. Gary Peters came to Pontiac City Hall Wednesday morning to discuss his plan to combat an agreement between Pontiac Emergency Manager Lou Sch...

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Deficit Soars For Pontiac Schools

www.theoaklandpress.com | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Pontiac Public Schools, Pontiac Schools, Pontiac Budget Deficit, Emergency Manager Law, Pontiac Budget, EMERGENCY MANAGER, Pontiac, Detroit News

PONTIAC -- The budget deficit for Pontiac school district has increased to more than $24 million, more than double what it was two years ago. As a...

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Why Was It So Hard To Say Goodbye To A Car?

Holly Robinson | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Cars, Road Trips, Choosing a Car, Porsche, Motherhood, Minivans, Identity, Civic, Family Vacations, Audi, Honda, Pontiac, Automobile, Crv, Odyssey, Quattro, Women News

Yes, I know it sounds stupid, but I cried all afternoon over selling a car. There I stood, weeping as if someone had just dumped my new Porsche into a river.

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Teen Makes Occupy Wall Street Trip With Grandmother

Turnstyle | Posted 12.05.2011

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Originally published on Turnstylenews.com, a digital information service surfacing emerging stories in news, entertainment, art and culture; powere...

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Scared Of 'Ghost Car' Sticker Price?

Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Rohm & Haas, Pontiac Ghost Car, Ghost Car, Far-Out-Photos, General Motors, General Motors Ghost Car, Plexiglas, Weird Photos and Videos, Pontiac Deluxe Six, Pontiac, Weird News News

One of only two "Ghost Cars" ever built will be up for grabs at the RM Auction in Michigan on July 30 and the plexiglas 139 Pontiac Deluxe Six could f...

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19 Iconic Products That America Doesn't Make Anymore

Bussiness Insider | Anika Anand and Gus Lubin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cell Phones, Manufactoring, Foreign-Products, Economy, Dell Computers, Pontiac, Chuck Taylors, Business News

Another American icon has bit the dust: Pontiac. GM is canceling the 84-year-old brand after winding down production over the past few years. Like ...

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The New Normal in Manufacturing and Housing

Barry D. Wood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Normal, Mark Zandi, Uaw, Detroit, Jamie Dimon, Foreclosure, Auto Industry, Housing Crisis, Pontiac, Mi, Business News

Unemployment in Pontiac, Michigan is at 30 percent. And if housing needs to lead us out of the recession, the hard times will be with us quite a while longer. Welcome to the new normal in manufacturing and housing.

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PHOTOS: The Brand Graveyard - 17 Household Names That Fell Victim To The Recession

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Linens 'N Things, Levits, Saturn, Recesison Brands, Brand Graveyward, Brands That Died During the Recession, Pontiac, Washington Mutual, Fortunoff, Circuit City, Slidepollajax, Hummer, Gourmet Magazine, Business News

Here lies a leading big box electronics retailer, an iconic photography mainstay and a host of once ubiquitous consumer brands. In the interest o...

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Another U.S. Car Division Bites the Dust: Mercury

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Saab, Oldsmobile, Hot Rod, Saturn, Alan Mulally, Hirohata Mercury, Bob Hirohata, Ford, Pontiac, Edsel, Bill Ford, Sam Barris, Henry Ford, Lincoln, Elana Ford, Mercury, George Barris, Hummer, Business News

A lesson other car-makers have learned the hard way is that buyers want a car that makes a definite statement, which knows its place in the market. A perpetual question mark like Mercury has absolutely no chance of survival.

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GM's February Sales Up Big, Rising 11.5 Percent

AP | DEE-ANN DURBIN and DAN STRUMPF | Posted 05.25.2011

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DETROIT — Automakers plowed through a snowy February to better-than-expected sales, and new incentives led by beleaguered Toyota will keep the m...

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GM Discounts: Saturn, Pontiac Cars Get $7000 Rebate

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — General Motors Co. is offering deep discounts on its remaining Saturn and Pontiac vehicles as it looks to move the leftover inventory...

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GM Recalls 1.3 Million Cars for 'Acting Like Toyotas'

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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With recent recalls of everything from cars to Girl Scout cookies, a new poll shows that Americans "no longer feel safe doing anything."

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General Motors Pickup Truck Closes: Is this The End Of The Pickup?

nytimes.com | BILL VLASIC and NICK BUNKLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gmc, Chrysler, General Motors, Truck Sales, Pickup-Trucks, Ford, Ford Plant, Michigan, Pontiac, Business News

PONTIAC, Mich. -- The closing of a big General Motors truck plant this week is another sign that America's love affair with pickup trucks is fading fa...

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GM's "60-day Buy Back" plan - more gimmicks or smart sales move?

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ebay, Saab, Lee Iacocca, California, Toyota, Saturn, Ed Whiteacre, Chrysler, Car Dealerships, Buick, AT&T, Chevrolet, Lexus es350, Cars, Gmc, Pontiac, Bob Lutz, General Motors, Detroit, Core Four, Hummer, Buick Lacrosse, Cadillac, Business News

Another "Hail Mary" from GM? Or the real thing? Starting today and running through November, General Motors is offering buyers of their Core Four bra...

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GM Must Cut Buick, GMC Now

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

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General Motors must drop their Buick and GMC divisions. And do it now. The number of people already put out of work by the Amazingly-Shrinking Genera...

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Which GM Brands Will Last? (VOTE)

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Saab, GM Bankruptcy, Chevrolet, Slidepoll, Gm, Gmc, GM Daewoo, Pontiac, GM Brands, Hhmmer, General Motors, Dodge, Gm Chapter 11, Business News

When General Motors filed for bankruptcy earlier this week, the century-old automaker announced that it would quickly cut a number of brands. The new ...

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A Look Back At Pontiac's History (SLIDESHOW)

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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Two people familiar with the latest developments in General Motors Corp.'s restructuring plan say the automaker will announce Monday that it is elimin...

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GM to cut 21,000 US factory jobs, shed Pontiac

AP | TOM KRISHER and KIMBERLY S. JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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DETROIT — General Motors Corp. could be majority owned by the federal government under a massive restructuring plan laid out Monday that will cu...

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GM To Drop Pontiac Brand

CNN Money | Peter Valdes-Dapena | Posted 05.25.2011

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General Motors is preparing to announce that the Pontiac car brand, once marketed as GM's "Excitement division," will be killed off, according to a so...

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GM, Chrysler Want Billions More

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Incidentally, GM got another $4 billion Tuesday after turning in their plan. Were you ever rewarded that much just for doing your homework?

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Car Sales Tank; Detroit Visits DC, Pt. II

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Now that they have our attention, the Detroit Three, in plans submitted to Congress Tuesday, increased their appeals for federal loans from $25 billion to $34 billion.

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Precipitous fifteen-year drop in US car sales; Need one? You probably can't get one

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

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They say "start out bad news with a joke," so: In Peter Gent's "North Dallas Forty," a football coach is talking with the team owner's son about his f...

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