
America’s auto Mecca Detroit is championing higher gas taxes. For years, the Big Three strongly lobbied against any effort to raise national or state gas taxes, but now they are doing the reserve. Why? Because they invested in hybrid cars and small...

Voters head to the polls Tuesday to select their mayor for the next 7 1/2 months in a runoff election seen as key to restoring stability to Detroit amid a bleak fiscal situation.
With just a month left to check off an almost insurmountable list of restructuring moves, General Motors Corp.’s new CEO says it’s still possible that the company can finish everything and avoid following Chrysler into bankruptcy.
General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson says the automaker still can avoid bankruptcy but it has a lot of work left before the government’s June 1 deadline.
GM says it is retaining a former company adviser to help it review potential buyers for its Saturn brand. The automaker says several parties expressed interest in buying the brand and its dealerships.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson says helping Detroit’s ailing auto industry is part of the NAACP’s new role.
Curtis Granderson hit a two-run homer in Detroit’s three-run eighth inning and the Tigers beat the Cleveland Indians 9-7 on Saturday.
The United Auto Workers union would appear to be the big winner in the Chrysler bankruptcy saga, having exercised its considerable political muscle to win a 55 percent stake in the country’s third-largest automaker.
The last two Stanley Cup champions were evenly matched in their second round series opener. Then Detroit got the best of Anaheim.
Detroit’s Big Three is becoming Ford and the other two.
Ford Motor Co. says its April sales fell 32 percent, but the company gained market share on record retail sales of its midsize Ford Fusion.
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