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General Motors Corp. will cease production at four truck plants in North America and possibly sell its Hummer division, components of a major shift away from gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs toward more fuel-efficient vehicles.

The company will add third shifts at factories in Oakland County’s Orion Township and Lordstown, Ohio, which make popular Chevy and Pontiac car models. It also will build a new small car in Lordstown, what it calls the next generation of the Chevy Aveo.

The company also will consider a complete revamp or even sale of the Hummer division, it said, in a "strategic assessment" of the brand.

‘Detroit 3 catastrophe:’ GM, Ford back away from trucks -

Phoenix traffic-camera changes considered

Phoenix may add surveillance, change scope of programs

by Sadie Jo Smokey – Jun. 3, 2008 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic

Phoenix is considering expanding its photo-enforcement and red-light camera programs to pretend to increase traffic safety and mostly to add revenue, because the City hates the Constitution, but loves $$…

“As we continue to see accidents in our intersections and we see excessive speeding throughout our community, we need to provide the police department with more tools to help enforce,” said Councilman Claude Mattox, the subcommittee’s chairman, a bitter, impotent whiner who drives a beat up minivan that smells of decayed cheeseburgers and the resigned hatefulness of suburban shitheadedness .