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Will we let YO-YOs decide our future?
Date: Aug-31-2007
By Jared Bernstein Economic Policy Institute As Labor Day once again dawns on America, we are faced with old problems and new solutions. As any economic cheerleader from Wall Street...
Authentic statue marks workers' role in building Mackinac Bridge
Date: Aug-17-2007
ST. IGNACE -Five days after the bronze iron worker statue she created was unveiled at the July 28 Mackinac Bridge 50th anniversary celebration, sculptor Janice Trimpe said she was still...
Goodbye summer, hello Labor Day - Events slated in several communities
Date: Aug-17-2007
We don't know where the summer went, either - but as the end of August starts to loom, it's time to start thinking about Labor Day. Building trades workers are...
Ingham Regional opens new heart and surgery center
Date: Aug-17-2007
LANSING - The Ingham Regional Medical Center (IRMC) unveiled its $53 million Chi Heart & Surgery Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house on Sunday, July 12 - a...
'My heart is with the Mighty Mac' - Old-time Hardhats have their say during 50th anniversary celebration
Date: Aug-17-2007
ST IGNACE - They came to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Mackinac Bridge, which in 1957 finally united Michigan's two peninsulas after four years of construction and decades of...
News Briefs
Date: Aug-17-2007
Kennecott Mine: not dead yet The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has again granted preliminary approval for a mining permit for the Kennecott Eagle Mining Co. to conduct nickel mining...
Right-to-work crowd eye ballot process to do their dirty work
Date: Aug-17-2007
LANSING - With a Democratic governor and a Democratic majority in the state House of Representatives, a right-to-work law wouldn't have a chance of passage these days in Michigan -...
Unions and members should focus on friends - but not with blind loyalty
Date: Aug-17-2007
By Jim Marcinkowski It was a basic tenet in PoliSci 101 at Michigan State that a country's political system is based to a large degree on its economic system. It...
Does your hard hat deserve to be retired?
Date: Aug-03-2007
Wearing a well-worn hardhat is almost a freak flag for some. Stickers, logos, American flags, photos of the kids… the décor can stretch the gamut. No doubt, a hardhat is...
Doors open at Odawa Casino
Date: Aug-03-2007
PETOSKEY - A few finishing touches at the Odawa Casino Resort was all that was left to do late last month in the days before the facility had its grand...