Michigan
Fighting to be reborn
July 14, 2010It wasn't quite "old home week," but attending the U.S. Social Forum last month in Detroit, where I had lived for many years, was special, and thought-provoking.
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A dramatic reawakening of a people’s movement
July 12, 2010DETROIT - Two significant things happened in this beleaguered city recently that show the possibility of turning our country's problems around.
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Your mailman searches for the ghosts of Tom and Joe
June 14, 2010Today a young couple with two kids told me a sad story: they are giving their house, a house they had built just eight years ago, back to the bank.
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Hoffa gets university award, cites labor’s challenges
April 19, 2010DETROIT - Teamsters union President James Hoffa, a Detroit native, received the first Wayne State University "Labor Leaders on Labor" award at a ceremony here this month.
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Company demands rate hike for new coal plant
April 12, 2010Despite claims coal energy is cheaper than green energy, Consumers Energy wants to impose an 8.5 percent rate hike to pay for a new coal-fired plant in Michigan.
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