Saturday, September 6, 2008 A century of General Motors Driven by culture: GM’s cars take center stage in popular music, movies, TV shows Susan Whitall / The Detroit News For a century, General Motors Corp. has cast a huge shadow over American popular culture, its cars inspiring songs, movies, cartoons and TV shows. Images of [...]

Saturday, September 6, 2008 GM ramps up recycling More than 80 plants to be landfill-free after 2010 Robert Snell / The Detroit News WARREN — General Motors Corp. plans to recycle or reuse all production waste and garbage at half of its factories around the world by the end of 2010, a move that could [...]

Friday, September 5, 2008 Chicago Ford plant to eliminate 600 part-time jobs The Associated Press Ford Motor Company says it’s cutting 600 part-time jobs at its Chicago assembly plant when it drops one of its two shifts by early November. The automaker also says an unspecified number of hourly and salaried employees could lose their [...]

Friday, September 5, 2008 GM unveils Web site to rebut critics David Shepardson / Detroit News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — General Motors Corp. unveiled a political-style Web site today to rebut what it called rumors and half-truths about the company. The Web site, www.gmfactsandfiction.com, rebuts suggestions that GM’s lobbying for more than $25 billion in [...]