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A new study says customer satisfaction with cars has fallen three-point-seven percent to 79, on a 100 point scale. The study is from the American Customer Satisfaction Index. Car owners report a 40 percent increase in recalls, compared to the second quarter of last year, which is damaging driver satisfaction. …

With 15 months to go until the election, former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton has some work to do to convince Michigan voters she is the choice for President in 2016. More than half the people in a new poll conducted by Lansing-based EPIC-MRA for the …

There are now six Republican presidential hopefuls scheduled to speak at a Republican conference on Mackinac Island next month. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is the latest to confirm for the 31st Biennial Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference. Already scheduled are former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, former Hewlett-Packard …

Amid an up and down market, financial advisors are urging investors not to hit the panic button. That probably didn’t stop some from selling earlier this week, when at one point the Dow had dropped a thousand points. But Lansing-based gold market analyst Pat Heller says an adjustment is underway …

A state senator that sits on a panel considering changes to Michigan’s energy policies says job creation should be part of the discussion. Energy reforms being looked at would eliminate the state’s renewable standard and dump net metering, the program that credits solar panel users for putting their excess power …

A bill could be introduced soon requiring anyone found guilty of possessing heroin to serve at least three years behind bars. State Representative Scott Dianda, an Upper Peninsula Democrat, is working on the measure. He says a ton of heroin is making its way in to the U.P. from Wisconsin …

Gas prices should continue to steadily decline over the next few weeks now that BP’s Whiting, Indiana refinery is back up to full strength. Patrick DeHaan of Gas Buddy-dot-com says gas prices have already dropped 25-cents a gallon over the last week. He says prices could drop another 25-cents to …

A Michigan doctor wants to eliminate the state’s child vaccination waivers for religious and philosophical reasons and she’s making it easier for others to join in her effort. Grand Rapids-area doctor, Michelle Davis, launched the website Mivaccinations.org that gives people a simple way to email state lawmakers saying they don’t …

A color-filled scorecard ranking your child’s school would be a thing of the past under a bill soon-to-be introduced in the Michigan House. State Representative Lisa Posthumus Lyons says she will push a bill again to change the color-coded scorecard to a letter grading system. She introduced similar legislation last …

An Ontonagon Woman is injured after trying to avoid hitting a deer. The Ontonagon Sheriff’s Department says Mykenna Voss was traveling south on Daniels Road just north of M-38. At about 8:15 last night, she says she saw a deer on the road. Voss says she is not sure how …