Michigan
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— DETROIT SCHOOLS-EMERGENCY MANAGER
MICHIGAN NEWS PHOTO RECOMMENDATIONS:
— NYRD201, 207, 209-214, with ROSA PARKS ARCHIVE
— With TRANSPARENT CAR-AUCTION
MULTIMEDIA:
— AP Video, with ROSA PARKS ARCHIVE
PULL-OUT BOX:
— UNEMPLOYMENT-MICHIGAN-GLANCE
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OBAMA-FUEL ECONOMY
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is announcing a compromise with the auto industry to increase fuel economy standards for cars and trucks. Under the new standards, fuel efficiency would double to 54.5 miles per gallon. The mileage goals will be phased in starting with the 2017 models.
DETROIT SCHOOLS-EMERGENCY MANAGER — Teachers, administrators and other Detroit Public Schools employees are being forced to take a 10 percent wage cut by the district’s state-appointed emergency financial manager as part of efforts to erase a $327 million budget deficit. The district announced Friday in a statement that employees also will begin contributing 20 percent of the cost toward their health benefits. By Corey Williams.
ROSA PARKS ARCHIVE — Long before Rosa Parks was hailed as the “mother of the civil rights movement,” she wrote a detailed and harrowing account of nearly being raped by a white neighbor who employed her as a housekeeper in 1931. The six-page essay, written in her own hand many years after the incident, is among thousands of her personal items currently residing in the Manhattan warehouse and cramped offices of Guernsey’s Auctioneers, which has been selected by a Michigan court to find an institution to buy and preserve the complete archive.
AP Photos Video
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FBN--LIONS-PRACTICE STARTS
ALLEN PARK — Amid a whirlwind start to the preseason, the Detroit Lions start practice. Detroit can also start officially announcing free agent signings Friday. By Noah Trister.
AP Photo.
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CENTERPIECE: EMERGENCY MANAGERS-MICHIGAN
LANSING — No new cities or schools have been added to Michigan’s roster of places governed by state-appointed emergency managers since the law was changed earlier this year. A ballot drive aimed at repealing the measure is progressing. AP Photo.
Eds: This week’s Capital Focus and a Michigan AP Centerpiece. Moving Friday.
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EXCHANGE-SCOUTS TURN 100
MUSKEGON — It was 1911 when the boys from Chicago first climbed aboard a steamship to head into wilds unknown. They were among a new breed who called themselves Boy Scouts, committed to being helpful, loyal, obedient and brave, among other virtues. When the Boy Scouts finally disembarked in Whitehall, a world away from the bustle of city life, the townspeople lined the streets to greet them. AP Photos MIMUS101, 103-104.
Eds: An AP Member Exchange from The Muskegon Chronicle. Moved Thursday.
EXCHANGE-BEATING CANCER
BUCHANAN — Blood in your urine is never a good sign. For Bill Loux, the general manager and golf course superintendent at Orchard Hills Country Club, it was followed by even worse news. “He (University of Michigan Hospital Dr. David Wood) looked me in the eye and said I had incurable cancer and would not live more than two years. It was just devastating, almost like numbing,” he said. “I was in good shape and had always had good health. The flu was the worst thing I’d had.” That was five years ago. By Lou Mumford.
Eds: An AP Member Exchange from the South Bend (Ind.) Tribune. Moved Thursday.
FOR USE MONDAY, AUG. 1, AND THEREAFTER:
EXCHANGE-ITALIAN-AMERICAN HISTORY
DETROIT — Behind a strip mall on Plymouth Road in Redford Township lies a homemade piece of American history — Italian-style. But blink, and you’ll drive right by it. Silvio Barile, 70, has created a museum of sorts that pays tribute to everyone from George Washington to Julius Caesar in a maze of Italian and American history that fills his yard and storefront. By Megha Satyanarayana.
AP Photos MIDTF101-104.
Eds: An AP Member Exchange from the Detroit Free Press. Moved Thursday.
EXCHANGE-HISTORY BOOK
NORTHPORT — Local historian John C. Mitchell faced a big question in 2007 when he considered writing a book about the Grand Traverse region. Was there enough local historical information to create the book he envisioned? He didn’t want to rehash Civil War history or write a military history filled with minutiae. By Loraine Anderson.
AP Photo MITRA101.
Eds: An AP Member Exchange from the Traverse City Record-Eagle. Moved Thursday.