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...Maini, who as a student at the University of Michigan in 1990 built a solar-powered electric car, says he aims to "sell at price parity with conventional cars," a goal that will be easier to reach if production and sales volumes are increased...
...small cars on the drawing board, including two versions of the Cruise that will replace the Chevrolet Cobalt next spring. In addition, Henderson has confirmed that GM is working on a new family of small cars that, following the intervention of the United Auto Workers, will be built in Michigan rather than China, where GM originally planned to make them. Henderson says the new small cars will be affordable and profitable...
...seeking $12 billion over the next decade to beef up funding for these two-year institutions, which educate nearly half of U.S. undergrads - but you'd never know it from the crickets in medialand. CNN and Fox devoted no live airtime to the speech, which Obama delivered at Michigan's Macomb Community College, while MSNBC cut back to the Sotomayor confirmation hearings partway through. The fear of eyeballs glazing over isn't surprising: glamorous these trade schools are not. But there's a good reason why Obama calls community colleges "one of America's underappreciated assets." They set up their...
...Senate is expected to vote soon on an amendment offered by Carl Levin of Michigan, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and John McCain of Arizona, its ranking Republican, to eliminate $1.75 billion that the committee added, over their objections, for seven more F-22s (the price includes only the hardware, not the R&D, to design the planes). Those calling for an end to the plane's production note that the F-22 was designed to fight Soviet warplanes - aircraft never built by a country that no longer exists. (See pictures of Russia celebrating Victory...
...uneven distribution of homelessness: "More than half of all homeless people on a single night in January 2008 were found in just five states: California (157,277), New York (61,125), Florida (50,158), Texas (40,190) and Michigan (28,248). Their share is disproportionate, as these states constitute only 36% of the total U.S. population. Mississippi, South Dakota, and Kansas had the nation's lowest concentration of homeless persons ... In both 2007 and 2008, one in five people homeless on a single night in January were in Los Angeles, New York, or Detroit." (See "Giving Kolkata's Homeless Kids...