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Skyrocketing rent in Midtown, pot dispensaries to close, fast food rally: Your Tuesday morning briefing

By Steve Neavling on October 2, 2018 Morning Briefing

Skyrocketing rent in Midtown is pricing out Wayne State students; state to force dozens of medical marijuana dispensaries to close; and fast food workers are rallying for better wages and the right to organize a labor union.

Judge: Dan Gilbert companies violated federal labor laws with threatening, anti-union rules

By Steve Neavling on April 8, 2016 Government, Headline

Six Dan Gilbert companies violated the National Labor Relations Act for overly broad, threatening language in a “confidential” employee handbook that prevented the formation of unions and censored workers.

After Mayor Bing cuts police patrols amid spiking violence, he seeks to raise own security detail to 30 officers

By Steve Neavling on May 1, 2013 City Council, City Government, Crime & Fire, Emergency Manager, Featured Stories, Government, Mayor's Office, Police, posts

On any given night, officers arrive to work with a backlog of cases that would be a priority in most cities. But police are overwhelmed with murders, rapes, aggravated assaults and armed robberies.