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State Supreme Court supremely important this year - and this decade
Date: Oct-13-2000
So you've taken the time to vote, either by absentee ballot or at the polls. You get down to the final portion of the ballot, which has the names of...
VOUCHERS WILL HURT MICHIGAN'S PUBLIC AND PRIVATE EDUCATION SYSTEMS
Date: Oct-13-2000
ESSEXVILLE - It was a day to be proud of, and the tradesworkers responsible for the mammoth generator conversion project at Consumers Energy's Karn-Weadock Generating Complex on Saginaw Bay were...
We're fighting for your fair wages and safe jobs - won't you join us at the polls on Nov. 7?
Date: Oct-13-2000
By Patrick Devlin Secretary-Treasurer Greater Detroit Building and Construction Trades Council "Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant,...
C'mon, send 'em in! Return voter forms to clerk by Oct. 10
Date: Sep-29-2000
How important is the Nov. 7 general election? Extremely important. That's why the Detroit and Michigan Building Trades Councils this week have mailed more than 70,000 voter registration applications and...
Looking down…And looking up
Date: Sep-29-2000
AT 5:46 P.M. on Oct. 28, 1998, the 25-story shell of the former J.L. Hudson's Building sat on this site in downtown Detroit. A minute later, after the largest implosion...
NEWS BRIEFS
Date: Sep-29-2000
Carpenters ready to further shun labor? The United Brotherhood of Carpenters, whose Michigan chapter has already disassociated itself from the Detroit and Michigan Building Trades Councils, may choose to withdraw...
On the record…Who's bad? See where Gore, Bush stand on issues
Date: Sep-29-2000
"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote." -George Jean Nathan The definition of what makes a "bad" official, is of course, in the eye of the...
Raising nonunion standards - for all the wrong reasons
Date: Sep-29-2000
Nonunion contractors now masters of the obvious: Increased pay keeps workers Tradesman viewpoint Editor's note: Following is evidence of some appalling logic by leaders in two large, nonunion construction companies....
58er Jones on target at archery championships
Date: Sep-15-2000
Bullseye! IBEW Local 58 member Bob Jones is quite familiar with that term these days, having won his division in the 2000 Indoor U.S. National Championship and the International Field...
Candidates come calling to court very important voters: Michigan's
Date: Sep-15-2000
So, Michigan voters…what makes you so special? If it seems to you as if Michigan is getting more than its usual share of attention from presidential candidates in the 2000...