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Construction on upward track in Michigan, nation
Date: Dec-05-2014
The construction industry in Michigan didn’t have a good October, but it has had a pretty good year. Construction employment in Michigan dropped 1.7 percent from September to October 2014,...
M-1 Rail - What's old is new again
Date: Dec-05-2014
DETROIT – Since the city’s street pattern was laid out in the 1830s, Woodward Avenue has, over the years, gone from being a dirt trail to being platted, planked, bricked,...
News Briefs
Date: Dec-05-2014
‘Shell game’ latest plan for road money LANSING – Work in the state Legislature’s “lame duck” session – which takes place after the general election but before the end of the...
'Positive story lines' emerge from economic forecast, too
Date: Dec-05-2014
ANN ARBOR – Michigan’s construction industry is expected to add 18,000 jobs over the next two years, more than double the 4,300 industry jobs added in the 12 months leading...
Election yields more of the same: labor's friends in office are few and far between
Date: Nov-21-2014
LANSING – Michigan’s voters have had a good look from 2010-2014 at what total Republican control of state government looks like. Michigan being made into a right-to-work state. Permanent reduction...
Far right may seek to trade road funding for prevailing wage repeal
Date: Nov-21-2014
The Michigan GOP enters the upcoming lame duck session knowing they will have a super-majority next year after the pickup of four house seats and one senate seat in the...
Many benefits will flow from construction of new water plant
Date: Nov-21-2014
BAY CITY – Better water quality, a more efficient system and meeting present and future EPA standards are some of the benefits on the way for about 90,000 customers...
Murzen has left the building, but his name hasn't
Date: Nov-21-2014
WARREN – Retired Sheet Metal Workers Local 80 Training Director Steve Murzen certainly left his mark on the union’s Training Center. And now there’s a sign to affirm it. Murzen,...
New crop of lawmakers is the latest threat to prevailing wage repeal
Date: Nov-21-2014
LANSING – There’s a good chance that a lid will be kept on incessant calls from some within the state’s Republican caucus to repeal the Michigan Prevailing Wage Act in...
News Briefs
Date: Nov-21-2014
State Senate OKs gas tax hike for roads LANSING – The Michigan Senate voted Nov. 13 to hike state gas taxes over the next four years, potentially raising more than $1...