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The Building Tradesman Newspaper Editions
Aggregate of trades nearly finished with huge cement silo
Date: Oct-15-2004
It was a high-top topping-out at the giant Lafarge Distribution Facility on Detroit’s riverfront. The reputed largest cement products silo in North America recently took another step towards completion with...
Bush's hometown newspaper rates Bush: 'We trusted him. He let us down.'
Date: Oct-15-2004
(Editor’s note: Following is an editorial that appeared in President Bush’s hometown newspaper, The Lone Star Iconoclast of Crawford, Texas. It is reprinted here with permission). Few Americans would have...
Manufacturing industry to lose the burger-builders?
Date: Oct-15-2004
(PAI) – Many of our nation’s lawmakers are acknowledging that hamburger assembly is not the same as auto assembly. On Sept. 17, the Republican-led House voted to ban a Bush...
News Briefs
Date: Oct-15-2004
Short-term road funding OK’d Unable to come together to adopt a plan that would have funded construction transportation spending for six years, Congress and President Bush approved a measure on...
Recent Supreme Court decisions have 'brutal' affect on trades' ability to win injury lawsuits
Date: Oct-15-2004
In 1972, an ironworker named Michael McDonough was killed in a workplace catastrophe in Flint, resulting in a lawsuit. In the McDonough case, the Michigan Supreme Court recognized that construction...
Stagnant jobs numbers persist under Bush
Date: Oct-15-2004
New jobs numbers released Oct. 8 show President George W. Bush is nearly 7 million jobs short of the job predictions his economic advisers made in February 2002 when Bush...
A day in the life of Joe Middle-Class Republican
Date: Oct-01-2004
Joe gets up at 6 a.m. to prepare his morning coffee. He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards....
DOT director is operator for a day: 'I can see your people work hard'
Date: Oct-01-2004
HOWELL – Michigan Department of Transportation (DOT) Director Gloria Jeff is accustomed to operating a state division with hundreds of employees, but on Sept. 10, she became an operating engineer...
Lawmakers try to save overtime provisions; Bush threatens veto
Date: Oct-01-2004
WASHINGTON (PAI) – A lot of Republicans are joining Democrats in the fight to save overtime pay. But there’s one Republican – the man in the Oval Office – who...
News Briefs
Date: Oct-01-2004
ABC's money, time flow to Bush WASHINGTON (PAI) - It's said that a man is known by the company he keeps. A recent news release by the anti-union Associated Builders...