When you rely on fully industrialized waterways for transportation, the effects of drought on industry that don't obviously rely on rain (like agriculture) can still be quite devastating. Such as the auto industry.
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Michigan Republicans are very special. After passing right to work legislation in at best a marginally legal manner, they are seeking to punish universities who are negotiating new contracts with.
On March 7, 1932, several thousand unemployed workers marched toward Henry Ford's River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Upon reaching the complex, the city police and Ford's armed guards, very.
Republicans in Michigan are bringing back transvaginal ultrasounds for women who want an abortion.
Who says that right-to-work laws doesn't create new jobs? Look at Michigan for instance: Gov. Rick Snyder's administration is hiring an attorney to enforce the new right-to-work law who will.
I've been remiss in not talking about the Michigan right to work disaster. Part of it is that it's so bloody depressing, part is that I'm really focusing on my.
So I am getting more than a bit sick and tired of poorly contextualized ruminations on the ruin landscape of Detroit. Some of this art and writing is interesting enough on its own. Marc Binelli's piece for instance is alright and does sort of get...
Michelle Rhee's organization StudentsLast is not just anti-teacher union. It's anti-collective bargaining more broadly. The organization has contributed $500,000 against Michigan's Proposal 2, which would make the right to collective.
Michigan Republican legislator Wayne Schmidt: Thousands of women protested when Michigan State Rep. Lisa Brown (D-West Bloomfield) was banned from speaking on the House Floor for a day after she.
Republicans in the Michigan Legislature are more than happy to stick government way up a woman's vagina. But if a state legislator Lisa Brown actually says the word "vagina" on the floor, she must be silenced: Brown's comment prompted a rebuke Thursday by House Republicans,...
On June 6, 1943, nearly 30 leaders of the Packard Hate Strike in a United Auto Workers-organized plant in Detroit were suspended from their jobs. The culmination of a series.
On this date in 1937, the Flint Sit-Down strike ended after General Motors recognized the United Auto Workers at the bargaining agent for GM employees. This titanic victory legitimized the.