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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Federal law that prohibits insurers from denying healthcare based on preexisting conditions, or kicking dependents off their parent’s coverage until age 26, is now codified separately into Michigan law. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation Thursday that attempts to duplicate the Affordable Care Act, known as “Obamacare,” into state law. Earlier this year, a federal judge struck down the ACA preventive care provision. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimates that 150 million people in private health plans have benefited from the no-cost preventive services. A number of other states have codified Affordable Care Act provisions into state law.

Persons: Gretchen Whitmer, Obamacare, Whitmer Organizations: —, Democratic, “, U.S, Supreme, U.S . Department of Health, Human Services, Michigan House, Republicans, Democrats Locations: LANSING, Mich, Michigan, ”

GM will report third-quarter results Oct. 24, with Ford following on Oct. 26. The strikes have costing GM and Ford more than $500 million, JP Morgan analyst Ryan Brinkman estimated in a note Monday. Ford is now losing $44 million a day, while GM is losing $21 million a day, Brinkman estimated. GM and Ford shares have fallen sharply since July as the standoff with the UAW has intensified. GM has set up a new, $6 billion credit line as insurance against an expanded UAW strike.

Persons: Rebecca Cook, Morgan Stanley, Adam Jonas, Morgan, Ryan Brinkman, Ford, Brinkman, Shawn Fain, Fain, Mich, Farley, Tim Piechowski, Joe White, David Evans Organizations: Rouge Electric Vehicle, REUTERS, Rights, General Motors, Ford, United Auto Workers, GM, Ford's, Kentucky, Detroit, EV, UAW, Capital Research, Investments, Thomson Locations: Dearborn , Michigan, U.S, Ford's Kentucky, Marshall

☆ In rare move, Ford chairman calls on UAW to make a deal and end 'acrimonious' talks
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Michael Wayland | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Ford, who has been a part of UAW negotiations since 1982, pleaded with union members and leaders to work with the company, instead of against it, to reach a tentative deal to "end to this acrimonious round of talks." Such comments by the great-grandson of company founder Henry Ford are uncharacteristic during contract talks with UAW. Ford, ahead of speaking on stage, told reporters he wanted to "elevate" the conversation about the contract negotiations. This should not be Ford versus the UAW," Ford said. "It should be Ford and the UAW vs. Toyota and Honda, Tesla, and all the Chinese companies that want to enter our home."

Persons: Bill Ford, Ford, Henry Ford Organizations: Ford Motor, United Auto Workers, UAW, Ford, Toyota, Honda Locations: Mich, Detroit

☆ Teju Cole Knows His New Novel Resembles Autofiction. Please Don’t Be Tempted.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Anderson Tepper | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“I don’t think there is any way of discussing Teju Cole’s aesthetic without putting front and center this idea of his relentless inventiveness,” the writer Amitava Kumar wrote by email. Cole calls his new novel “a reiteration of my faith in fiction.” But it didn’t come easily or quickly. After “Open City,” Cole began to conceive of a big work of nonfiction on Lagos, his hometown, in the vein of Suketu Mehta’s book “Maximum City,” about Mumbai. (Cole, who often borrows from his own biography in his books, was born in Kalamazoo, Mich. and raised in Nigeria. I think I had to realize that what I have to offer is something else, closer to the bone and more personal.”

Persons: Amitava Kumar, “, Thelonious Monk, Kumar, Cole, ”, ” Cole, that’s Locations: Lagos, ”, Mumbai, Kalamazoo, Mich, Nigeria, United States

☆ What Is the Mortgage Interest Deduction?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( Aly J. Yale | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +11 min

That’s thanks to the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction, which lets you write off the interest you pay on your mortgage loan throughout the year. What is the mortgage interest deduction? The mortgage interest deduction is a type of itemized tax deduction that has been around in some form since a federal income tax was introduced in 1913. Mortgage pointsMortgage points—an upfront fee you can pay at closing to lower your interest rate—are another form of mortgage interest, just prepaid. Whether you should take the mortgage interest deduction comes down to the age-old question of itemizing vs. using the standard deduction.

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Wall Street's three major indexes opened higher but lost ground after a preliminary reading on U.S. consumer sentiment showed a sharp fall in October. The moves in bonds, equities and oil reflect worries about deteriorating consumer sentiment, the global economy and geopolitical conflict, she added. However, for the week the S&P 500 registered a 0.45% gain for its second weekly advance in a row. The S&P 500 Banks index (.SPXBK) pared gains as the day wore on to close up 0.6% after rising as much as 3.4% to a three-week high. The S&P 500 posted 12 new 52-week highs and 20 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 28 new highs and 335 new lows.

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ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — Detroit Lions linebacker Alex Anzalone’s parents are among about 50 people affiliated with a Naples, Florida-based church that is praying for their safe return from Israel this week. Israel has vowed an unprecedented offensive against Hamas after the Islamic militant group’s fighters broke through the border fence Saturday and stormed into the country’s south. The war between Israel and Hamas has claimed at least 2,200 lives and raged for a fifth day. First Naples Communications Pastor Andy Wells said the church made contact with Pastor Alan Brumback, who is also on the overseas tour, on Wednesday. Lions coach Dan Campbell said he called Anzalone about his parents when he was informed of their plight Sunday night.

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☆ Maps of the 2023 ‘Ring of Fire’ Solar Eclipse
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Jonathan Corum | Katrina Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +13 min

Maps of the 2023 ‘Ring of Fire’ Solar EclipseOn Saturday, Oct. 14, an annular or “ring of fire” solar eclipse will sweep across much of the Western Hemisphere. Viewers outside the path of annularity will see the crescent sun of a partial solar eclipse. The map below shows the path of the eclipse, and the approximate local time when the ring of fire will be visible. NEV. CALIF. Ely Los Angeles Las Vegas Salt Lake City San Diego WYO. Corpus Christi MEXICO 12:00 p.m. MISS.

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Fain also wants workers at the plants to make top UAW assembly plant wages, which now are $32 per hour. Political Cartoons View All 1205 Images“The battery plants are going to be the make-or-break issue,” said Sam Abuelsamid, a mobility analyst for Guidehouse Insights. And if lower-paying battery plants aren't union, workers won't have anywhere to get the same wages and benefits. But they also see a future where buyers could switch, and they think wages at the battery plants should match what they make. The UAW, he said, will use this to try to organize other Korean-owned battery plants.

Persons: WAYNE, Shawn Fain's, Stellantis, they'll, Fain, ”, Sam Abuelsamid, It’s, festering, Ford, Jim Farley, “, ” Fain, Farley, Mary Barra, Chris Jedrzejek, Jedrzejek, Todd Lauerman, “ it’s, ” It's, Abuelsamid, let's, Harry Katz, Katz, Marick, Masters Organizations: Ford, United Auto Workers, EV, General Motors, Detroit, UAW, Korean, Guidehouse, GM, Carnegie Mellon University, Bronco, Toyota, Cornell University, “, Wayne State University Locations: Mich, Detroit, U.S, Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan, Ford, Korean, Wayne , Michigan, Ohio, South Bend , Indiana

BEAVER ISLAND, Mich. (AP) — A pilot's error during landing caused a 2021 plane crash that killed four people on a Michigan island, federal investigators concluded. The National Transportation Safety Board, which investigated the Nov. 13, 2021 crash on Beaver Island, said in a report released Thursday that the pilot lost control during landing and crashed 300 feet (91 meters) from the airport's runway. While approaching the airport, the plane was observed flying slowly and “‘wallowing’ as if nobody was flying,” the report said. The pilot and three others were killed in the crash; a young girl survived. The pilot was flying for Island Airways, which takes travelers between Beaver Island in northern Lake Michigan and Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula.

Organizations: National Transportation Safety Board, NTSB, Island Airways Locations: BEAVER, Mich, Michigan, Beaver, Lake Michigan, Lower

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge is expected to decide Friday morning whether to drop charges against two defendants accused of participating in a fake elector scheme after the state attorney general said the group was “brainwashed” into believing former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, however, may have derailed the case by saying during a virtual event last month that the electors "legit believe" Trump won the election. But it's the only state where the accused false electors face criminal charges. At a Sept. 18 virtual event organized by liberal groups, Nessel said the group would never plea guilty because they “genuinely believe” Trump won the election. Henry and several others, including former Michigan GOP co-chair Meshawn Maddock, are scheduled to appear for a preliminary examination hearing on Oct. 12.

Persons: ”, Donald Trump, Clifford Frost, Mari, Ann Henry, “, Dana Nessel, Trump, Matthew Schneider, there's, Joe Biden, Nessel, ” Trump, ” Nessel, Kevin Kijewski, Nessel's, George McAvoy Brown, Amy Facchinello, Kristen Simmons, Simmons, Henry, Meshawn Maddock Organizations: —, Michigan Republicans, Michigan, GOP, Democrat, Democratic, Associated Press, Court, Michigan GOP Locations: LANSING, Mich, Michigan, U.S, Detroit, Ingham County

☆ New U.A.W. Chief Has a Nonnegotiable Demand: Eat the Rich
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( David Streitfeld | More About David Streitfeld | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Nelson Lichtenstein, a labor historian, said he saw Mr. Fain as a throwback. leadership in a long while, reaching back to the 1930s and 1940s,” Mr. Lichtenstein said. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the “pyramid of success” developed by John Wooden, the coach who produced a U.C.L.A. Mr. Fain copes with stress by working out and listening to music, cranking up selections from the entire spectrum — hip-hop, ’80s rock, Metallica, Frank Sinatra. He’s still getting used to the job, and to the fact that Shawn Fain from Kokomo Local 1166 is the U.A.W.

Persons: Nelson Lichtenstein, Fain, ” Mr, Lichtenstein, Bernie Sanders, Walter Reuther, Martin Luther King Jr, ”, John Wooden, Patrick Anderson, cranking, Frank Sinatra, He’s, Shawn Fain, U.A.W Organizations: Anderson Economic Group Locations: Vermont, East Lansing, Mich, Kokomo

☆ The US economy is extremely fragile right now and could tip into a recession within months, according to a new model
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Cork Gaines | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A new Bloomberg model shows a better-than-50% chance a recession could begin this year. According to Anna Wong and Tom Orlik, two chief economists at Bloomberg Economics, the model works "fairly well" at matching previous calls of recession. AdvertisementAdvertisementAccording to the model, the US could declare a recession in 2024 following a possible economic dip in the last months of 2023. Other factors not out of the woodsAnd then there are the maybes: the United Auto Workers strike and a potential government shutdown. If the model is correct, there is already a good chance a recession may hit.

Persons: —, Anna Wong, Tom Orlik, Mario Tama, Taylor Swift, Jeff Kravitz, Debbie Downer, Paul Sancya, Kevin McCarthy, It'll Organizations: Bloomberg, Service, National Bureau of Economic Research, Bloomberg Economics, San Francisco Fed, United Auto Workers, Victoria Hall, Ford Michigan Assembly Plant, GM, Ford, AP Locations: Santa Clara , California, Wayne, Mich

☆ When Will the Saltwater Wedge Reach New Orleans?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Mira Rojanasakul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +11 min

When Will the Saltwater Wedge Reach New Orleans? Lake Pontchartrain By Oct. 28, saltwater is expected to reach a major intake valve at Carrollton that serves most of the city. Gulf of Mexico Lake Pontchartrain By Oct. 28, saltwater is expected to reach a major intake valve at Carrollton that serves most of the city. Gulf of Mexico Lake Pontchartrain By Oct. 28, saltwater is expected to reach a major intake valve at Carrollton that serves most of the city. Gulf of Mexico Lake Pontchartrain By Oct. 28, saltwater is expected to reach a major intake valve at Carrollton that serves most of the city.

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☆ The UAW Tax and the Car Safety Revolution
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Striking members of the United Auto Workers in Belleville, Mich., Sept. 26. Photo: EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/REUTERSClifford Winston’s op-ed “UAW Strike May Hasten Detroit’s Decline” (Sept. 22) says little about the United Auto Workers’ role in shrinking the domestic auto industry by half over the past 40 years. My employer, Ford, employed around 400,000 in its heyday. The loss of workforce and closing of plants were due to the UAW’s contract agreements and restrictive work rules, agreed to by the company under duress. These helped make Detroit uncompetitive.

Persons: EVELYN HOCKSTEIN, Clifford Winston’s, Ford Organizations: United Auto Workers, “ UAW, Ford, Detroit Locations: Belleville, Mich

☆ Trump seeks UAW endorsement while criticizing EVs, Biden in Michigan
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Michael Wayland | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an autoworker-focused campaign rally at auto supplier Drake Enterprises, on Sept. 27, 2023 in Clinton Township, Michigan. Trump, the front-runner among Republicans in the 2024 presidential race, many times encouraged the UAW to endorse him during the roughly hour-long speech. Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an autoworker-focused campaign rally at auto supplier Drake Enterprises, on Sept. 27, 2023 in Clinton Township, Michigan. The sides failed to reach tentative agreements by an 11:59 p.m. Sept. 14 expiration of contracts for 146,000 UAW members with the Detroit automakers. Currently, about 18,300 UAW members with the Detroit automakers are on strike, with the union warning of additional strikes without substantial progress in the talks by Friday.

Persons: Donald Trump, Michael Wayland, CNBC CLINTON, Trump, Joe Biden, Biden's Organizations: U.S, Drake Enterprises, CNBC, CNBC CLINTON TWP, United Auto Workers, UAW, Trump, Republicans, General Motors, Ford Motor, Detroit, Detroit automakers, GOP Locations: Clinton Township , Michigan, Mich, –, Detroit, China, CNBC

☆ A New Tax to Fix U.S. Autos? What Chutzpah
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A ‘UAW On Strike’ sign held on a picket line in Burton, Mich., Sept. 25. Photo: Emily Elconin/Bloomberg NewsClifford Winston’s op-ed “UAW Strike May Hasten Detroit’s Decline” (op-ed, Sept. 22) is further evidence that energy-transition advocates want to change your behavior. He proffers “an efficient vehicle-miles-traveled tax,” wherein the government could “reduce driving, especially during peak periods,” as a more efficient means to cut emissions. This would require the government to track vehicles and tax their owners for driving at the wrong time or place and for fueling or charging your soon-to-be-mandated EV at the wrong time.

Persons: Emily Elconin, Clifford Winston’s Organizations: UAW, Bloomberg, “ UAW Locations: Burton, Mich

All 16 are facing eight criminal charges, including forgery and conspiracy to commit election forgery, that were first announced in July by state Attorney General Dana Nessel. Michigan is one of seven states where false Electoral College certificates were submitted declaring Trump the winner, despite confirmed results showing he had lost. On Sept. 18, Nessel, a Democrat, told a liberal group during a virtual event that the false electors had been “brainwashed” and “genuinely” believed Trump won in Michigan’. George MacAvoy Brown, an attorney for Henry, said in a statement that the charges require proof that Henry “intended to cheat or deceive someone” and that Nessel's comments show that wasn't the case. Henry and several others, including Maddock and Kathy Berden, Michigan’s Republican national committeewoman, are scheduled to appear for a preliminary examination hearing on Oct. 12.

Persons: Donald Trump, Dana Nessel, Michigan’s “, Joe Biden, Trump, ”, ” Nessel, Nessel, Ann Henry, George MacAvoy Brown, Henry, Henry “, Danny Wimmer, Nick Somberg, Meshawn Maddock, Amy Facchinello, Maddock, Kathy Berden Organizations: Michigan Republicans, GOP, The Detroit News, Democratic, Michigan GOP, Associated Press, AP, Republican Locations: LANSING, Mich, . Michigan, Michigan, Ingham County, ”

SWARTZ CREEK, Mich. (AP) — About five people picketing in the United Auto Workers strike outside a Flint-area General Motors plant suffered minor injuries Tuesday when a vehicle leaving the plant struck them, police said. The striking workers were blocking a driveway, and an employee was trying to leave the Flint Processing Center in Swartz Creek when the collision occurred just before 4 p.m., Chief Matthew Bade of the Metro Police Authority of Genesee County said. The employee drove through the picket line to leave the plant, Bade said. “These people are out here, you know these are my membership, and they’re out here doing a peaceful, legal demonstration." The Flint Processing Center is one of 38 locations where workers walked off the job last week in the widening strike by the UAW against GM, Ford and Stellantis.

Persons: Matthew Bade, Bade, Jack Crawley, Steve Dawes, ” Dawes, Biden Organizations: United Auto Workers, General Motors, Flint Processing, Metro Police Authority, Flint Journal, UAW, GM, Ford Locations: Mich, Flint, Swartz, Genesee County, “, Michigan

☆ Ford Halts Work on E.V. Battery Plant in Michigan
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Jack Ewing | More About Jack Ewing | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ford Motor, in the midst of tense contract negotiations with striking United Automobile Workers, said on Monday that it was suspending construction of a battery factory in Michigan because of concerns that the plant might not be able to make products at a competitive price. It was unclear whether the halt was related to negotiations with the union, or to other issues. Ford has come under attack from Republican lawmakers because it plans to manufacture batteries at the plant in Marshall, Mich., using technology licensed from CATL, a Chinese company that is the world’s largest maker of batteries for electric cars. At the same time, Ford has warned that increases in pay and benefits sought by the U.A.W. If unions got all that they were asking for, “we would have to cancel our E.V.

Persons: Ford, Jim Farley Organizations: Ford, United Automobile Workers Locations: Michigan, Marshall, Mich, CATL

☆ Opinion: Rupert Murdoch helped wreck media — and politics
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Opinion David Zurawik | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Few media figures in the last 27 years have had a larger and more profound effect on American political and media life than Rupert Murdoch. Ailes, who helped Richard Nixon get elected president in 1968, specialized in the political use of media. Again, Murdoch is not the only reason for the lack of trust in the media and the flood of disinformation and misinformation. I have been writing about Murdoch and Fox since the 1980s, and have observed that Murdoch was more concerned about money than ideology. In a commercial sense, Murdoch is an incredibly successful media figure.

Persons: David Zurawik, Rupert Murdoch, David Zurawik Mich Rouse, Murdoch, Lachlan, Murdoch’s, Roger Ailes, Richard Nixon, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Mark Zuckerberg, James Organizations: Goucher College, Baltimore Sun, CNN, Fox and News Corporation, Murdoch’s Fox News, Democrats, Fox News, Murdoch, Capitol, Fox, Facebook, Media, Sport Committee Locations: Australia, America, Europe, Germany, Italy, American, Elon Musk’s

FAITHORN, Mich. (AP) — A 2-year-old girl who walked away from her home in Michigan's Upper Peninsula alongside two family dogs was found in the woods hours later sleeping on the smaller dog like a furry pillow, state police said. “She laid down and used one of the dogs as a pillow, and the other dog laid right next to her and kept her safe,” Lt. Mark Giannunzio said Thursday. Troopers from Michigan State Police’s Iron Mountain post had been called to a home in the Faithorn area of Menominee County about 8 p.m. Wednesday after the girl wandered away. Around midnight, a citizen on an ATV found the girl about 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) from her home, state police said. Faithorn is an unincorporated village located just east of the Wisconsin state line and about 60 miles (97 kilometers) southwest of Marquette, Michigan.

Persons: Mark Giannunzio, “, Giannunzio Organizations: Michigan State, ATV Locations: Mich, Upper Peninsula, Michigan, Wisconsin, Faithorn, Menominee County, Marquette , Michigan

But union leaders say Trump's record in the White House speaks for itself. While the United Auto Workers union has withheld an endorsement in the 2024 presidential race, its leadership has repeatedly rebuffed Trump. Despite Trump's history of success in courting blue-collar workers in previous elections, union leaders say their members would do well to believe their own eyes. As president, Trump largely sat on the sidelines during a 40-day walkout at a General Motors plant in 2019. “President Trump has always been on the side of American workers,” his campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement.

Persons: Donald Trump, he’ll, Trump, “, Dave Green, Mark McManus, Ron Bieber, you’re, Peter Berg, ”, Steven Cheung, Cheung, Joe Biden, ” Trump, Trump's, Green, ” Green, “ Banks, Biden, Price, Linley Sanders Organizations: Detroit, United Auto Workers, Union, U.S, Supreme, Trump, UAW, Ohio, National Labor Relations Board, Republican, Trump -, ” Michigan AFL, Associated Press, Michigan State University, General Motors, Republicans, Democratic Party, AP, Democrats Locations: LANSING, Mich, Trump, Michigan, Detroit, Toledo , Ohio, Indiana, ”, California, U.S, Ohio, Lordstown , Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, New York, Washington

☆ Ford Reaches a Labor Deal in Canada as U.S. Talks Inch Along
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Neal E. Boudette | More About Neal E. Boudette | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Unifor’s talks with Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, which owns Chrysler, Jeep and Ram, started on Aug. 10 but have been overshadowed by the U.A.W. Ford has an assembly plant and two engine plants in Canada. Unifor selected Ford as the “target” of its talks, meaning it focused on securing the best deal it could from the company before turning to the other two automakers. Ford’s deal in Canada appears to have little bearing on the U.A.W. ; a Ford truck and sport-utility vehicle plant in Wayne, Mich.; and a Stellantis S.U.V.

Persons: Unifor’s, Ram, Ford, Unifor Organizations: Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, Jeep, ’ Locations: United States, Canada, Wentzville, Mo, Wayne, Mich, Toledo , Ohio

ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) — Five puppies learning to be assistance dogs had a howling good time Tuesday during a training exercise at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. During the training, the quintet of pooches and their trainers walked through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint, rode an elevated tram and boarded an airplane. It was all part of an effort to acclimate the dogs to one of the many settings they may experience later in life. The training was led by Paws With A Cause — a Wayland, Michigan-based nonprofit that oversees the custom training of puppies that become assistance dogs for people with disabilities. The group pairs puppies with volunteers who raise and socialize the dogs for the first year of their lives.

Persons: ROMULUS, they’re, Liz Hood, Hood, ” Hood Organizations: Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Transportation Security Administration Locations: Mich, Wayland , Michigan

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