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Stretched funding rules give pension plans a much-needed break
Date: Jan-16-2009
Christmas for the nation's pension plans came a little early last year, as President Bush on Dec. 23 signed legislation that is expected to provide some relief for single- and...
Topped out C.S. Mott Hospital replacement 'right on schedule'
Date: Jan-16-2009
ANN ARBOR - The structural steel's up at the massive C.S. Mott Children's and Women's Hospital Replacement Project, but it's only the first major milestone that can be marked as...
Delta Dental's HQ becomes bigger, greener with expansion
Date: Dec-26-2008
OKEMOS - Smile. An $85 million expansion of the Delta Dental headquarters is moving along nicely. In its 51st year of business, the dental benefits provider is bursting at the...
Dow Corning announces $1B expansion
Date: Dec-26-2008
HEMLOCK - Dow Corning's Hemlock Semiconductor Group announced Dec. 15 that it would invest up to $1 billion to expand polycrystalline production at its plant here, about 10 miles west...
Do we become a nation that…no longer has a path to middle class prosperity?
Date: Dec-26-2008
Editor's note: For all the bashing that Republicans in the U.S. Senate have received here in Michigan for their vote against the auto bridge loans to Detroit's Big Three, one...
MSU reels in $550M isotope beam facility
Date: Dec-26-2008
EAST LANSING- "This is a great day for science," said MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon. It was a pretty good day for Michigan State University and the building trades,...
News Briefs
Date: Dec-26-2008
No action in '08 on toilet bill LANSING - The legislative year ends with no action on House Bill 5064, a measure which would increase the number of portable toilets...
Obama signals support for jobs proposal that any Hardhat would love
Date: Dec-26-2008
Road and bridge projects worked to put Americans to work during Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program in the 1930s - can the concept can work again 70 years later?...
They're 'willing to risk a worse global economic calamity in order to break a union'
Date: Dec-26-2008
By Robert Borosage Campaign for America's Future In their last obstruction, Mitch "Dr. No" McConnell's Senate Republicans blocked a bridge loan for the auto companies, unwilling even to sustain them...
News Briefs
Date: Dec-12-2008
Bush takes parting shot at unions In a final-days attack on workers' rights, President Bush on Dec. 1 issued an executive order that denies collective bargaining rights to about 8,600...