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State officials on Wednesday pledged $500,000 to the city of Janesville to help raze a General Motors factory that has languished for nearly a decade there.
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Read More »Janesville begins to reveal its past for the future
Government puts $773 million toward clean up of old GM sites, including Janesville
By ?KEN THOMAS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has reached a deal on a $773 million environmental trust, the largest of its kind in U.S. history, to clean up dozens of former General Motors sites spread ...
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Read More »Obama: Trust fund to help clean up shuttered GM sites
By ?KEN THOMAS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Tuesday proposed a trust fund of more than $800 million to pay for the cleanup of closed General Motors sites in 14 states, including Wisconsin. President Barack ...
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Read More »A job, but there’s a catch: a 1,000-mile commute
By SHARON COHEN AP National Writer JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) — In the early dawn, after another week building cars, Michael Hanley leaves his job in Kansas. He quickly zips into Missouri, then heads up a ribbon of highway past grain ...
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Read More »Kenosha stands as model of new uses for shuttered auto plants
DAVID RUNK and JEFF KAROUB Associated Press Writers WIXOM, Mich. (AP) — Henry Ford’s great-grandson arrived at the shuttered auto plant to brag about a plan to revive the vast empty space: Investors would transform it into a modern factory ...
Read More »GM: 37 percent of U.S. Saab dealerships to close (4:48 p.m. 11/14/09)
By DANIEL LOVERING AP Business Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — About 37 percent of U.S. Saab dealers will close as part of General Motors Corp.’s planned sale of the ailing Swedish car brand to Koenigsegg Group AB, a GM spokeswoman said ...
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Read More »Michigan gets good news with small car plant
David N. Goodman AP Writers Orion Township, MI — Michigan has snatched back a few of its fast-disappearing auto jobs, winning a high-stakes competition with two other states to build General Motors Corp.’s next-generation subcompact car. The news is a ...
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Read More »GM workers scramble for work
Bill Poovey Associated Press Writer Spring Hill, TN (AP) — Two decades after General Motors Corp. launched Saturn as its import-fighting, small car division in Tennessee, GM has 2,500 workers at the Spring Hill assembly plant sweating, worried they might ...
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