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Relax, and register to vote from your recliner
Date: Dec-13-2019
Relax, and register to vote from your recliner LANSING – Do you need to register to vote or update your voter registration information? No, don't get up. Stay seated in...
Some good economic news to end the year
Date: Dec-13-2019
Good economic news, mostly, was released as the odometer begins to flip from 2019 to 2020. On Dec. 6, a strong federal jobs report came in, showing that the U.S....
AFL-CIO chief lays out labor's priorities for 2020
Date: Nov-29-2019
By AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka What a great time to be in the labor movement. I’ve been in the trenches for more than 50 years, brothers and sisters, and I’ve...
Construction starts slipping, but employment remains firm
Date: Nov-29-2019
Over the past few months U.S. construction industry employment and spending data have been moving in opposite directions. But there is likely logic behind the divergence. First, in one direction:...
Enbridge comlpletes tunnel rock sampling
Date: Nov-29-2019
Enbridge comlpletes tunnel rock sampling Enbridge has completed the process of sediment and rock sampling under the Straits of Mackinac in preparation for building a utility tunnel to encase its...
Out of sight, out of mind... Michigan spurns spending to upgrade water, sewer systems
Date: Nov-29-2019
Michigan, almost always in the bottom one or two states when it comes to road funding rankings, has simply been unable to find the political will to raise billions of...
Safe, productive outage improves Consumers Energy's Campbell plant
Date: Nov-29-2019
WEST OLIVE - It was a good, productive 55-day outage that wrapped up this week at the Consumers Energy's J.H. Campbell Generating Facility. That's the word from Consumers Energy Construction...
State's National Guard links with Helmets to Hardhats
Date: Nov-29-2019
LANSING - The Michigan National Guard will be formalizing a partnership with the Michigan Helmets to Hardhats, a national program administered by the Center for Military Recruitment, Assessment, and Veterans...
End of post-recession prosperity looms for U.S. construction, Dodge Data says
Date: Nov-15-2019
With the end of another calendar year on the horizon, construction industry prognostications for the 2020 building season are starting to trickle in. Dodge Data and Analytics, one of the...
EPI: Trump's NLRB methodically attacks worker protections
Date: Nov-15-2019
By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (PAI)—Just about the only worker protection the Trump-named GOP National Labor Relations Board majority hasn’t successfully banned, yet, is Scabby the Rat. It’s...