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Challenges to prevailing wage don’t add up
Date: Nov-23-2007
"The prevailing wage law increases the cost of construction by 10 percent to 15 percent, and the additional costs are passed along to Michigan taxpayers." - Paul Kersey, The Mackinac...
Congress provides the key to new Soo lock
Date: Nov-23-2007
The U.S. Senate on Nov. 7 joined the House in overriding President Bush's veto, opening the door to the spending of $23 billion for Army Corps of Engineers water-related projects...
News Briefs
Date: Nov-23-2007
U-M: U.S. economy will rebound ANN ARBOR - Despite a slumping housing market, rising oil prices, flat auto sales, a weak U.S. dollar and waning consumer confidence, America's economy will...
Trades writing their chapters in Book-Cadillac's renovation
Date: Nov-23-2007
DETROIT - The Westin Book-Cadillac Hotel is quite literally coming out of its shell. Just over a year ago, developer John Ferchill led a tour of journalists through the ruins...
50 years for the Mackinac Bridge
Date: Oct-26-2007
At 1:45 p.m. on Nov. 1, 1957, the City of Petoskey car ferry made its final trip from Mackinaw City, docking in St. Ignace for an open house and program...
Good maintenance keeps the Mighty Mac mighty
Date: Oct-26-2007
ST. IGNACE - We should all be as healthy as the Mackinac Bridge at age 50. A steady regimen of parts replacement, painting, lubrication, and a form of exercise has...
Held at arm's length in the past, top Dems now arm-in-arm with labor
Date: Oct-26-2007
By Dick Meister Don't make the mistake of judging organized labor's strength by numbers alone - by the fact that unions now represent only about 12 percent of the country's...
It's (union-backed) Granholm vs. (business-backed) DeVos on Nov. 7
Date: Oct-26-2007
LANSING - Michigan Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm and her challenger, Republican Richard DeVos live in the same state, but are a world away from each other when it comes to...
Lansing council weighs local worker, expanded prevailing wage rule
Date: Oct-26-2007
LANSING - The city's lawmakers are reviewing a proposal that would establish a preferred local worker rule as well as what would probably be the broadest prevailing wage rule ever...
Mackinac Bridge workers recall the highs and the lows… and tell tall tales
Date: Oct-26-2007
The following article with comments by Mackinac Bridge workers was published by The Building Tradesman in 1997 for the bridge's 40th anniversary, and is reprinted here as we mark the...