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On Friday, October 11, 2019 from 11:30am-1:30pm, Washtenaw Community College’s Morris Lawrence Center, will serve as a fitting back drop for Black Women in Michigan Politics (BWIMP) as they host their inaugural Annual Luncheon. This non-partisan event is designed to celebrate, encourage, support and spotlight African American women who serve in all phases of Michigan’s political landscape.
Two communities seemingly left behind by General Motors Co. could lead the Detroit automaker into its electric future. GM wants to build electric pickup trucks in the Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant, which has been on life support since the automaker named it as one of four U.S. plants that would be idled.
As President Donald Trump has been openly feuding with House Democrats pursuing investigations into him, his administration and his finances, dozens of lawmakers -- almost entirely Democrats -- are calling to start an impeachment inquiry, the first step in a lengthy and likely divisive process.
Mayor Mike Duggan's administration officially submitted a $250 million bond proposal to remove remaining residential blight from Detroit by mid-2025 to the Detroit City Council on Monday, according to documents obtained by the Free Press. Total possible spending on blight removal, including funds outside the bond proposal, could be as high as $420 million, Duggan said.
President Donald Trump said Monday he hopes the UAW's national strike against General Motors is "a quick one" but remained largely noncommittal as to the differences separating the company and its union workers.
The Mahindra Group, which has invested over $1 billion in the US, inaugurated its new flagship office in the US capital as a strong marker of how important Indian companies have become in the US economy.
U.S. House lawmakers approved bipartisan legislation Wednesday that would block new offshore drilling off the majority of the U.S. coast — despite pushback from many Republicans. The legislation would put in place far-reaching new protections, blocking drilling off most of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
As Jimmy Aldaoud, a Detroit refugee found dead in Iraq after his deportation, was laid to rest Friday back in Michigan, family members gathered and dressed in black had no words to describe their grief. "I can't fathom what has happened," Rita Aldaoud, sister of the refugee, told The Detroit News earlier this week.
As Congress argues over the 2020 defense authorization bill, there is one issue that should provide common ground: the benefits of investing in women’s contributions to security. The House has already passed a set of provisions requiring the Defense Department to better draw on women; these should become part of the bill ultimately sent to the White House.
Over the August recess the number of Democrats in the House of Representatives in favor of impeachment or an impeachment inquiry has increased to more than half of the chamber’s Democrats. But most of the Democrats who have signed on to support an inquiry are from solidly blue districts.