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Health premiums expected to rise (Detroit News)
Many Michigan companies can expect to pay nearly 8 percent more for health benefits next year, on top of a similar increase this past year, according to a report released Wednesday by Mercer, a benefits consulting firm with offices in Detroit.

Attorney General pummels Blue Cross plan to deregulate company (The Saginaw News)
The one consensus among mid-Michigan lawmakers is there is no consensus on how the final version of bills regulating Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan might look when it lands in the Legislature. In a press conference Wednesday in Saginaw,...

Officials: State's banks are 'very safe and secure' (Livingston County Daily Press & Argus)
Despite recent news that 19 banks nationwide have failed, Michigan Bankers Association officials said Michigan banks "are very safe and secure."

Editorial Roundup (AP via Yahoo! News)
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:

More demand shrinks state’s unemployment fund (Dover Post)
    Delaware’s Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund has hit a more than 10-year low, but the state is actually holding up well compared to funds nationwide.