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Michigan business briefs (Detroit Free Press)
Membership in the Flint-based HealthPlus of Michigan, a Flint HMO, is growing in southeast Michigan, officials said Thursday at an open house to greet community leaders at its Troy office.
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State dismisses clerk candidate's complaint (Detroit Free Press)
The Michigan Department of State has dismissed a complaint from a West Bloomfield clerk candidate alleging her competitor's campaign violated state campaign finance rules.
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Bankruptcy shuts down Double JJ (The Muskegon Chronicle)
ROTHBURY -- The Double JJ resort ceased operations Wednesday in the face of an expected early October sale forced by a bankruptcy court.
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Steve & Barry's closing local store (Midland Daily News)
    Bargain-priced apparel store Steve & Barry's' new owners want a smaller, leaner company but that will come at the expense of six Michigan stores -- including one at the Midland Mall -- that will close.
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Detroit's sputtering Big Three turn to Washington for help (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Battered by weak sales, declining market share and miserable credit ratings, Detroit's Big Three automakers are now turning to the US government for help.
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Rothbury's Double JJ Ranch closes, plans property auction (Detroit News)
Double JJ Ranch, Waterpark and Golf Resort, a fixture on the Michigan travel scene since 1937 and site of this summer's successful Rothbury Music Festival, closed its doors Wednesday, throwing 150 nonseasonal employes out of work.
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U.S. Steel settles lawsuit over Ecorse plant pollution (Crain's Detroit Business)
Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel Corp. will pay $4.45 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by residents of Ecorse and River Rouge over air pollution from an Ecorse plant the company purchased out of bankruptcy in 2003.
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Michigan business news in brief: Gas prices fall 8 cents (Detroit Free Press)
AAA Michigan says gas prices have dropped 8 cents over the last week, putting the statewide average at $3.74 a gallon.
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Supplier to close plant, cut jobs (Livingston County Daily Press & Argus)
The former Plastech Engineered Products plant in Hartland Township will close on or around Sept. 29 and all of the plant's 110 employees will lose their jobs, Livingston County employment officials said Friday.
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Long-Term Capital: It a Short-Term Memory (The Gadsden Times)
The Long-Term Capital fiasco momentarily shocked Wall Street out of its complacent trust in financial models and was replete with lessons, but the lessons were ignored.
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