New Orleans The House of Representatives voted in favor of an increase on the minimum wage. The package they proposed when this way: Step One: 60 days after passage = $5.85 Step Two: 14 months after passage = $6.55 Step Three: 26 months after passage = $7.25 All of this looks good though only because it …
Month: January 2007
Detroit Public Art?
Cleveland In Detroit we visited with Ken Paff, the long time director of TDU (Teamsters for a Democratic Union) and enjoyed lunch with him at a great Polish restaurant down the street from his office of 20 years standing on a rough block in Detroit. Ken is another example and inspiration of hard, thankless work over a …
Cheaper Electricity
Detroit All of the news this morning is the Detroit Auto Show here, where this city is still trying to fly the flag on a ship that increasingly seems to have set sail, while those of us still driving American made cars seem to have ‘old school’ tattooed across our foreheads. Nothing seems more ‘old …