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Byline: Mary Kramer This is a big year for organized labor in metro Detroit. Auto talks are on, and UAW President Dennis Williams has proposed a really big idea for [...]

Byline: Mary Kramer Early this year, state Sen. Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof, a Republican from the Holland area, announced plans to repeal the state's 'prevailing-wage law.' Timing is everything. And [...]

Byline: Mary Kramer Treat people as you'd like to be treated. That's more than a golden rule; it's a shot at curbing litigation. That's a lesson I learned years ago [...]

Byline: Mary Kramer This is the time of year for State of the State, State of the City, State of the Union. How about 'the state of organized labor'? Michigan [...]

Byline: Mary Kramer Will he or won't he? After a breathtaking week of legislative initiatives, we went to press Friday with many Michigan women wondering: Would Gov. Snyder sign into [...]

Byline: Mary Kramer When the dust from Michigan's tumultuous march toward becoming the 24th right-to-work state settles, some 300-400 people can look back and know they were on the ground [...]

Byline: Mary Kramer Oops. About 600 people attended last week's two-day West Michigan Policy Forum in Grand Rapids, the third held in that city since 2008. Sessions were short; topics [...]

Byline: Mary Kramer Get ready for World War III. This month, two legislators are expected to introduce the 'Labor Freedom Act,' a bill that would make Michigan a right-to-work state [...]

Byline: Mary Kramer Crain's Michigan Business? Yes, after 25 years of serving Southeast Michigan executives with need-to-know news and information, Crain's today extends its periscope to explore the rest of [...]

For months, Crain's, other news media, business associations and 'good-government groups have hammered away at telling us all the ways Michigan is broken. The consensus: Michigan just doesn't work anymore [...]

Detroit Mayor Dave Bing is taking flak for threatening to trim bus service to reduce the city's deficit. But there's a solution to Detroit's problem with its Department of Transportation [...]

Here's an idea for Detroit Mayor Dave Bing: Set up an anonymous tip line. Let employees, residents and businesses know the number, and encourage them to use the line to [...]

In an interview last week, media mogul Rupert Murdoch suggested that newspapers should charge for online content. 'People reading news for free on the Web, that's got to change, Murdoch [...]

One of the most fascinating political showdowns in recent Michigan history is under way, and I'm not talking (for once) about the standoff between Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and Detroit [...]

When I was a young reporter in the 1970s, I occasionally reported from Lansing where I formed an impression that the Capitol was mostly a male clubhouse run by older [...]

What's Michigan's booming industry? In a state struggling financially, it's ironic we seem to be winning the horse race on adding the most gambling spots in the Midwest. Detroit is [...]

In recent weeks, it seems hospitals in Southeast Michigan have been making more news than even the auto industry. For months, the big story in town has been the ugly [...]

John Rakolta Jr. is chairman and CEO of Detroit-based Walbridge Aldinger Co., one of the 50 largest construction companies in the country, with revenue a little shy of $1 billion [...]

Last week's postponement of the long-anticipated meeting between President Bush and the CEOs of Detroit's three automakers left no doubt: The 'Big Three'' are the industrial equivalent of Rodney Dangerfield [...]

Thousands of otherwise sane adults reverted to their inner frat-boy personas this past weekend as part of Saturday's annual football showdown between Michigan State and the University of Michigan. Would [...]

Every morning as I log on to my computer, I try to guess how many e-mail messages I'll delete without ever opening them to read. Often, I seem to have [...]