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Building operation allows growth for Pioneer
Date: Dec-06-2002
MARQUETTE - Just like pioneers of the old West, Pioneer Surgical Technology has had to become innovative and reliant on its community in order to survive and grow. Only 10...
Carpenters make amends with BT Department; status in AFL-CIO, Michigan unresolved
Date: Dec-06-2002
WASHINGTON (PAI) - The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners have rejoined the organized labor community - sort of. Last month, a memo from AFL-CIO Building Trades Department President Edward...
Lame duck legislators have been benign so far- but there's time
Date: Dec-06-2002
LANSING - The lame-duck legislative session - the period after the Nov. 5 general election and before the swearing-in of new lawmakers on Jan. 1 - came in like a...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Dec-06-2002
Show support for St. Clair Co. PLA Public meetings will be held this month in St. Clair County to determine the involvement of building trades union members on the construction...
Steel's up on Beaumont's bigger, better South building
Date: Dec-06-2002
The largest capital improvement project ever on the campus of Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak is currently one of the largest construction projects in Michigan. The 656,000 square-foot South Hospital...
Beasts of the field will get a diagnostic research center to call their own
Date: Nov-22-2002
EAST LANSING - Animal-borne diseases like bovine tuberculosis, chronic wasting disease and the West Nile virus threaten the lives of cows, deer and humans. But state-of-the-art laboratories that have the...
Construction's crystal ball: Activity to decline slightly in 2003
Date: Nov-22-2002
The first set of prognosticators have weighed in with predictions for the nation's construction activity in the new year - and the news is pretty good. The Dodge Division of...
File jobless apps through the mail
Date: Nov-22-2002
The State of Michigan is offering jobless workers a way of cutting through unemployment lines by filing their claims for jobless benefits through the mail. "Starting today (Oct, 28), we...
Granholm wins; but GOP is even stronger
Date: Nov-22-2002
LANSING - In the attempt to gain a foothold in state government, Michigan's working families scored only some smaller victories - but one very big one - in the Nov....
Lame-duck session may or may not hold nasty surprises
Date: Nov-22-2002
LANSING - Will the ongoing legislative session in our state's capitol be "the mother of all lame ducks" as predicted by Bill Ballenger, editor of Inside Michigan Politics? Or will...