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Willow Run Airport heats up plans to improve facilities
Date: Mar-14-2014
YPSILANTI TWP. – How do you efficiently heat an airplane hangar? Traditional forced air, steam and hot water systems have their applications in residential and business settings, but when it...
'Absolutely' - Snyder still embraces right to work
Date: Feb-28-2014
Gov. Rick Snyder said he has no regrets in signing off on two laws that introduced right-to-work for both public and private workers, and he was asked if Michigan is...
Electrician honored for lifesaving effort
Date: Feb-28-2014
FLINT – In recent years, medical studies have questioned the effectiveness of CPR, placing its success rate at as low as 2 percent and only as high as 20 percent....
News Briefs
Date: Feb-28-2014
Construction starts the year off wrong The value of new U.S. construction starts fell 13 percent in January from the month before to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $485.0...
Old, new are blended to create WSU Biomedical building
Date: Feb-28-2014
DETROIT — Placing a new biomedical research facility into a former car dealership might be the ultimate example of “adaptive reuse” of an old building. That’s what’s going on at...
Proposals to raise minimum wage spins wheels in Michigan, D.C.
Date: Feb-28-2014
A minimum wage hike might happen in Michigan, it might happen in Congress, and it might not happen at all. In Michigan, an EPIC-MRA poll released Feb. 13 showed 60-36...
Unions: outside political pressure leads to narrow UAW loss in Chattanooga vote
Date: Feb-28-2014
(By Mark Gruenber, PAI Staff Writer) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (PAI) – Outside pressure, from Republican politicians and business-backed Radical Right lobbies, led to the United Auto Workers’ narrow loss in the...
'We don't want to taint the water' - Union haters rise as UAW loses VW vote
Date: Feb-28-2014
Maybe the UAW didn’t try hard enough to win community support in Chattanooga. Maybe the VW workers felt they were being treated well without a union. Maybe pressure from local...
We're No. 50! Anti-tax ideologues put kibosh on new money for road work
Date: Feb-28-2014
In Michigan, what will come of the mash-up of brutal winter weather, growing public outrage over yawning potholes, desperately needed long-term road repair funding, a $1 billion state budget surplus...
Consumers Energy to shelve Thetford Plant
Date: Feb-14-2014
Consumers Energy announced Jan. 30 that it has placed an indefinite hold on construction of a proposed 700-megawatt natural gas-fired generating plant in Thetford Twp. near Flint. Instead, the utility...