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Utilities to pump $800 million into Ludington plant
Date: Mar-11-2011
LUDINGTON, Mich., Feb. 7, 2011 – Consumers Energy and Detroit Edison, co-owners of the Ludington Pumped Storage Plant, announced last month a major maintenance and upgrade project that will mean...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Feb-25-2011
Construction drops in January The value of new construction starts retreated 6 percent in January to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $423.4 billion, according to a Feb. 17 report...
Pounding on labor unions becomes a national pastime
Date: Feb-25-2011
LANSING – Organized labor in Michigan is hardly alone when it comes to fighting anti-labor legislation. The results of November elections in neighboring Wisconsin and Ohio have also fed the...
Renovations to bring new lease on life for EMU’s Pray-Harrold
Date: Feb-25-2011
YPSILANTI – When it was constructed in 1969, Pray-Harrold hall was not only the largest classroom and staff office building on the campus of Eastern Michigan University, it was also...
Republican volley aimed at Michigan’s unions: Appeal to moderate GOPers only hope in ‘massive assault’ on workers
Date: Feb-25-2011
LANSING – Busy, busy, busy. The state’s Republicans have been very active in their first few weeks of office – and if it’s not clear by now that putting an...
Right-to-work states: Still underpaid, underinsured
Date: Feb-25-2011
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page – which basically acts as the little instruction book for radical Republicans – plowed headlong into the ongoing “debate” about the economic benefits of...
Wake up, we’re at war: GOP using fiscal crises as excuse to kill unions
Date: Feb-25-2011
(By Mark Ayers, President, AFL-CIO Building Trades Dept.) As a military veteran, I have always bemoaned the casual use of war metaphors when it comes to public policy debates. But...
Where the rubber meets the road, texture adds a measure of safety
Date: Feb-25-2011
Driving on stretches of the 9,720 miles of State-of-Michigan-maintained highway during rain or snow events – which have especially common during this brutal winter – can you feel just a...
2011 construction forecast: Waiting time for industry’s turnaround maybe another year
Date: Feb-11-2011
A better year in 2011, but that’s not saying much. “This won’t be an easy year for most firms, but it will be better than last year,” said Stephen E....
Good upkeep brings smooth ride for Penobscot’s elevators
Date: Feb-11-2011
DETROIT – Due to good, timely maintenance and well-built machinery, getting where you need to go vertically in the Penobscot Building – one of the city’s oldest skyscrapers – has...