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In the News (Sun 29 Nov 09)

  
  The Militant - 9/25/95 -- Striking Unions Force Bosses To Airlift Papers Detroit Judge Rules To Limit Pickets As ...
Michigan - The Detroit Newspaper Agency (DNA) was forced to ferry out by helicopter the September 10 Sunday edition of its scab paper as mass pickets kept the gate of its printing plant here closed from late Saturday afternoon, September 9, to 4:15 a.m.
A broad spectrum of unions from the area were represented on the September 9 picket line.
The company's goal was nakedly stated by Detroit News editor and publisher Robert Giles in an interview with the Cleveland Plain Dealer September 2.
www.themilitant.com /1995/5935/5935_1.html   (1141 words)

  
 The Militant - 9/4/95 -- Detroit News Strike `Is No Longer Local Dispute' National Solidarity Weekend Against Union ...
The agency manages the advertising, circulation, and other business operations of the Detroit News, owned by the Gannett, Co., and the Detroit Free Press, owned by Knight- Ridder, Inc. In 1989, a Joint Operating Agreement was reached that allowed the papers to merge certain operations as long as they remained editorially separate.
When the police tried to clear the entrance to the plant, the workers stood their ground and the cops were unable to force a wedge to clear the driveway.
As traffic began to move again on Mound Road, motorists who had been delayed by the police action honked enthusiastically for the strikers as they drove by.
www.themilitant.com /1995/5932/5932_1.html   (1299 words)

  
 MOUND CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
The two state prisons in the city of Detroit are rare because of their placement in a densely populated urban setting.
The facility is separated from the community along Mound Road by buffer fencing, a planting berm with evergreen and deciduous trees, as well as two perimeter security fences.
Mound Correctional Facility has four gun-towers to complement double 12 foot fences that are topped with coiled stainless steel razor ribbon wire.
www.michigan.gov /corrections/0,1607,7-119-1381_1385-5352--,00.html   (313 words)

  
 [340 NLRB No. 121]Detroit Newspaper, 7-CA-40270
Detroit Newspapers, 326 NLRB 700 (1998), the Board concluded that the Respondent’s employees (and the employees of the News and the Free Press) had struck in reaction to unfair labor practices committed by the News during bargaining.
A hearing was held in Detroit, Michigan, on November 30 through December 3, 1998, and March 18, 1999, at which all parties were given a full opportunity to examine and cross-examine witnesses and to present other evidence and argument.
Detroit Newspapers II, to be decided here, is whether the DNA lawfully discharged certain of those strikers because they had engaged in serious misconduct during the strike.
www.nlrb.gov /nlrb/shared_files/decisions/340/340-121.htm   (12565 words)

  
 Scouting opens careers - 04/26/01
A Detroit area Scouting group brought a woman who runs her own company and a college professor who teaches engineering, statistics and related topics.
   The Detroit Area Council of Boy Scouts is beefing up its career development programs, bringing dozens of professionals to schools in Dearborn, Livonia, Detroit and other Wayne County districts.
   Detroit Area Council Scouting spokeswoman Kathy Grost said the organization views youth job exposure as key to developing a strong moral fiber -- a good education and a good job equal a productive man or woman -- and part of the responsibility of Scouting groups.
www.detnews.com /2001/wayne/0104/30/d03-217236.htm   (800 words)

  
 Business News
DETROIT (AP) - Chrysler Corp. and the United Auto Workers began negotiations Monday to settle an engine plant strike that has all but shut off the automaker's production of pickups and sport utility vehicles.
Monday's talks were the first since the walkout began late Thursday at Detroit's Mound Road engine plant.
The plants are in the Detroit area, St. Louis and Windsor, Ontario.
www.insidecowboys.com /biz97/auto041597.html   (492 words)

  
 BOA Meeting Minutes -- October 27, 2004
He stated that there were a lot of other areas where obviously where sexually oriented businesses are not, they had war zones and all of that, and they would not have to worry about that with natural gas wells, but in Detroit they had to worry about war zones.
He stated that if they lived within two hundred feet of an area that was coming in for a ZBA matter, then they had a conflict of interest and they were legally disqualified by the ordinance from participating in that matter.
He stated that was one area that they could trump state law, because state law said that they could have a more stringent code of ethics then what state law required.
www.flower-mound.com /agenda/archive/boa102704.html   (14612 words)

  
 Detroit Culture Information - Michigan, United States of America, North America Provided By Columbus Travel Guides   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Not only was Detroit home to the birth of Motown but it has had a thriving arts scene for a very long time.
The Detroit Dance Collective, 29 East Adams Avenue (tel: (313) 965 3544), and the Eisenhower Dance Ensemble, 1541 West Hamlin Road, Rochester Hills (tel: (248) 852 5850 or 5875; website: www.ede-dance.org), companies perform modern dance throughout the Detroit area.
City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit (1980) is the story of a veteran homicide officer in a showdown with a psychotic killer.
www.cityguide.travel-guides.com /cities/det/Culture.asp?TravelMenu=Down   (865 words)

  
 The All-American Soap Box Derby
The Detroit News signed on as an early sponsor of the Soap Box Derby in Detroit and the first Detroit News Soap Box Derby was run in 1935.
In 1956, the Detroit Derby was moved to a new track on Derby Hill on Outer Drive east of Mound Road.
Detroit was one of eight derbies in the nation that had sent an entry to the nationals since the first race in 1934.
info.detnews.com /history/story/index.cfm?id=96&category=life   (1811 words)

  
 A slower, calmer Van Dyke? - 11/4/02   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
They say Mound Road, which has medians and eight traffic lanes in most areas as opposed to Van Dyke's seven, is better suited to serve as a thoroughfare.
  According to figures from the Macomb County Road Commission, traffic is more than 83 percent heavier on Mound south of 12 Mile than it is on Van Dyke south of 12.
South of 9 Mile, traffic is 20 percent higher on Mound than it is on Van Dyke.
www.detnews.com /2002/metro/0211/04/a01vandyke.htm   (1033 words)

  
 Projects - University of Michigan Business School
Habitat Detroit will be building 30 new homes during this time, to kick off the holistic revitalization of Marshall Village, an economically distressed neighborhood.
The student will be involved in a variety of activities including evaluating the brand position of key initiatives, financial planning for HFLI and for individual schools, comparative benchmarking, and working with management and legal counsel to draft memoranda of understanding, services and licensing agreements.
The last area of focus will be urban planning, specifically reviewing feasibility assessments for consolidated parking and shuttle services in Uptown, researching legal issues and assisting with the development of an operating budget for a combined parking and shuttle authority.
www.bus.umich.edu /DomesticCorps/Students/Projects.htm   (3065 words)

  
 Company News On Call
DETROIT, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Gov. John Engler has officially endorsed the proposed acquisition of Conrail Inc. by CSX Corporation and Norfolk Southern Corporation.
Certain shipments that now are trucked from Detroit to Cincinnati be diverted to rail transportation -- eliminating an estimated 8,000 highway movements per year and saving about 2.4 million truck miles.
In addition to direct competition between CSX and Norfolk Southern in the Detroit area at points now served by Conrail, Norfolk Southern will operate most of the other Conrail lines in Michigan, including Detroit-Toledo, Detroit-Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo-Elkhart, Ind. and Jackson-Lansing.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/10-14-97/336498   (733 words)

  
 Detroit Chrysler workers react to company plans to slash 26,000 jobs "It's going to mean longer lines at the ...
Detroit Chrysler workers react to company plans to slash 26,000 jobs "It's going to mean longer lines at the employment center"
Chrysler is the largest employer in the city of Detroit, and the headquarters of DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler Group is located in Auburn Hills, a northern suburb.
The Mound Road engine plant on Detroit's east side is one of the plants slated to close.
www.wsws.org /articles/2001/jan2001/chry-j31_prn.shtml   (1377 words)

  
 Michigan Daily Realty News, Real Estate and Property News
Re-building Detroit A two-year campaign to light up downtown skyscrapers and public squares to enhance the city's skyline and improve safety is starting to pay dividends, but the illumination of buildings is more complicated than setting out a few spotlights and electrical cords.
Detroit Detroit Newspapers, the agency which oversees The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press, plans to sell 26 acres of riverfront land where one of the agency's printing plants is located.
Detroit Despite being home to some legendary modernist architects -- Eero Saarinen and Minoru Yamasaki to name just two -- the metro area and downtown Detroit in particular have never been entirely comfortable with modernism as an architectural style.
www.airsho.com /airsho_cfmfiles/newsletter/newsletter.cfm?agentid=1019   (1310 words)

  
 Obituaries from the Michigan Chronicle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Albert is survived by six children, Kathy, Keith, Scarlett, Angela, and Darryl, all of Detroit, and Steven of Kansas City, Kansas; daughters-in-law, Karen and Diane; son-in-law, Tyrone; sisters, Frances, Marie, Charlsie, Annie Ruth and Grace; one brother-in-law; 11 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces and nephews.
A Detroit Board of Education retiree, she joined the staff at New Child Development Center in 1991 and became an integral part of Joy of Jesus Ministries.
Burton was educated in the Detroit Public Schools and graduated form the Detroit Institute of Careers as a medical transcriptionist.
www.ccharity.com /chronicle/chronicleobits1.htm   (6952 words)

  
 Town Council Meeting Minutes -- September 7, 2000
Sagebrush was not a good access road because it was a two lane residential street with bar ditches and the homes and driveways face the road.
The highlighted areas were speed; enforcing the speed; state roads are some of the worst roads; too much red tape to complete projects; school intersections; traffic circulation at Flower Mound High School; Peters Colony; Churchill; Firewheel; right turn only off Sagebrush; expediting improvements.
The area within Specific Plan Area 1 is generally south of FM 1171/Cross Timbers Road, east of FM 2499/Long Prairie Road, north of Sagebrush Drive and west of Yucca.
www.flower-mound.com /agenda/archive/c_09_07_00.html   (3939 words)

  
 Detroit Free Press - Health News
The General Motors Tech Center at Mound Road and 12 Mile in Warren will have various courses where people can walk, run, skate or bike.
Participation in most sports or fitness activities either held steady or declined during the past 2 decades, say the authors of the report "Recreation Trends and Markets: The 21st Century." They contend the so-called boom was merely a media concoction.
All content © copyright 2004 Detroit Free Press and may not be republished without permission.
www.freep.com /backindex/2000/09/22/health.htm   (1277 words)

  
 Michigan Vietnam Monument Joins Motorcycle Ride In Detroit
The Michigan Vietnam Monument is looking for motorcycle owners to join us in the biggest one-day motorcycle ride in the Detroit area.
Detroit, MI - The Michigan Vietnam Monument is looking for motorcycle owners to join us in the biggest one-day motorcycle ride in the Detroit area.
Walkabout Cycle and Leather is located on Mound Road two blocks south of 14 Mile Road.
www.wherethepoweris.com /news_article.asp?id=895   (182 words)

  
 JS Online: Gas prices rising in area; blackout, gas line break cited
Gas prices in the Milwaukee area have jumped 12 cents per gallon in the last month and are up nearly 20% from a year ago, AAA Wisconsin reported Wednesday.
The average price of a gallon of regular, unleaded gas in the Milwaukee-Waukesha metropolitan area was $1.72 Tuesday, up from $1.60 last month and $1.44 in August 2002, AAA said.
Regular unleaded at Heppe's Amoco at 8283 W. Blue Mound Road sold for $1.79 per gallon on Wednesday but was in the $1.60s last week, Dziedzic said.
www.jsonline.com /news/metro/aug03/163675.asp?format=print   (511 words)

  
 High Priority Corridors @ AARoads.com: M-59 (Corridor 15)
From Ryan Road west of Utica to Van Dyke Avenue in downtown Utica, M-59 is being converted from a divided highway to a fully-controlled access freeway with a new interchange at Mound Road.
Currently, M-59 is routed north from the M-3/Gratiot Avenue and M-59/Hall Road intersection north of Mount Clemens to 23 Mile Road, then east concurrently with M-3 to end at Interstate 94.
M-59 is freeway from University Drive east of downtown Pontiac to Mound Rd west of Utica, while it under construction right now from Mound Rd west of Utica to Van Dyke Ave in downtown Utica, about one mile.
www.aaroads.com /high-priority/corr15.html   (591 words)

  
 Progressive News
ACOSS and assorted newspaper strikers and supporters will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Detroit Newspaper Strike/Lockout with a party/ox roast/fundraiser at UAW Local 909 (Mound Road and Stephens, which is 9.5 Mile Road).
Detroit's Black & Red has reprinted a chapter from Noam Chomsky's American Power and the New Mandarins (1969) as a small book to which I wrote the introduction.
It is a short, concise history of the Spanish Revolution and Civil War with emphasis on the crimes of the Stalinists in accelerating the failure of both.
progressivenews.blogspot.com /2005_05_01_progressivenews_archive.html   (2773 words)

  
 location   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Exiting I-696 (Ruther Freeway) at Mound Road NORTH continue on Mound Road approximately 2 miles to 13 Mile Road (which borders the north side of the General Motors Technical Center).
At that point to your left, at the north-east corner of Chicago Road and West Bound 13 Mile Road, you should see (set back from Chicago Road) the St. Pius X Knights of Columbus Hall.
Those traveling from the north on Mound can take Chicago Road east from Mound and go the short distance to the hall location (less than 1/4 mile).
www.detroitsteelheaders.org /location.html   (199 words)

  
 Detroit Club Scene -> Better Drivers
Just thought this was interesting, most of the worst intersections in the Detroit area are on the east side.
Years ago it used to be that Hall and Van Duke was the worst, but they fixed that when they bypassed mound road and put the new intersection in.
They would either be forcing their way all the way left to stay on Van Dyke instead of getting on 53 or blocking the intersection where 53 gets onto Van Dyke.
www.detroitclubscene.com /forums?showtopic=4857   (1102 words)

  
 About the Commonwealth Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
At that time there was a large influx of skilled tradesmen from Britain coming to the Detroit area and it wasn’t long before the average basement was too small to accommodate these new found friendships.
The Commonwealth Club ‘Mound Road Dance’ (as it was known) quickly became the place to be on a monthly basis for a growing number of ex-patriciates and the club finances started to grow based on dance profits and membership dues.
Thanks to the foresight of some dedicated founder members, when they had accumulated sufficient assets in 1968, a search was conducted to find their own premises.
www.commonwealthclubmi.netfirms.com /about.shtml   (856 words)

  
 Detroit Broadcasting jobs
Entrance to the Nature Study Area is on Inwood Road, three-quarters of a mile west of Mound Road.
The downtown area is coming alive with major construction projects, including two new stadiums and three casinos.
The Detroit area constitutes a rich stew of some four million people in a booming economic landscape.
www.filcro.com /detroit.html   (836 words)

  
 The History of Jim Crow
But, the greatest shock came to him that evening when he ran down the road to meet his mama, who was returning home after working all day in "the white folks' kitchen." He knew she would understand.
He named the town Mound Bayou, because of the large Indian burial mound nearby, and the community of over 800 fl families prospered for over 30 years as an isolated fl community.
One of the most important new fl churches that emerged in northern cities was the Nation of Islam, led by Timothy Drew, who took the name Nobel Drew Ali, and Wallace D. Fard, or Master Farad Muhammad.
www.jimcrowhistory.org /history/surviving2.htm   (6587 words)

  
 ClickOnDetroit.com - News - Snow, Ice Cover Metro Detroit Roadways
DETROIT -- A winter weather advisory remains in effect for southeast Michigan until about noon Wednesday as a storm blankets the area with freezing rain and snow.
Minor accidents were reported on roadways Wednesday morning, including one on I-696 near Woodward and one on Mound Road northbound at I-696.
About two to three inches of snow was expected to fall Wednesday morning in northern metro Detroit and end by lunchtime, according to Local 4's Big Picture Weather.
www.clickondetroit.com /news/1212696/detail.html   (342 words)

  
 Credit Union Finder
Here is a list of credit unions in your geographic area with a brief description of their eligibility requirements for membership.
Southwestern Michigan area education employees, students, retirees and family members, plus members of other select religious, governmental and business organizations within a 25 mile radius of CU office.
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www.mcul.org /cgi-local/cus.pl   (5223 words)

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