Thursday, January 1, 2009 Turning the page to 2009 New year, old problems: It’ll be a tough one — again — but ’09 brings opportunity, too Detroit News Staff We may be turning a new page on the calendar, but 2009 is hardly a clean sheet of paper for Metro Detroiters. The parts of the [...]

GM gets first $4 billion; Chrysler does not, yet   queryvar=”gm,gets,first,$4,billion;,chrysler,does,not,yet”; Harry Stoffer Automotive News | January 1, 2009 – 12:01 am EST     WASHINGTON — General Motors on Wednesday received the first $4 billion in emergency loans that the federal government has promised the automaker. Both GM and Chrysler had been scheduled to [...]