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BY JONATHAN TIMM LocalSportsJournal.com A flurry of thick, white snow came down at the National Junior College Athletic Association’s national championship cross country meet Nov. 8 at Lakeside Municipal Golf Course in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Watching his Muskegon Community College men and women compete in the NJCAA Division II nationals closely was Nick Marcinkowski, fourth-year head coach and an MCC alumnus, who has collected a trifecta of awards throughout the region following the 2025 season.
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GRAND RAPIDS -- The 2024 founding of Calvin University’s football program provided a new opportunity for former Ravenna football star Hunter Hogan. Now a ground-attack machine and utility plug for the receiving game, Hogan has played a prevalent part of the early-season success for the Knights football team.
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By Jonathan Timm LocalSportsJournal.com BIG RAPIDS-It is that time of year. Football at every level is here so for Muskegon native Brady Rose in his senior year at Ferris State, it’s time for one last hurrah. Every athlete, young and old, dreams and aspires to win at the highest level possible. Some high school athletes come from winning programs and move on to the college level. Since there is only one champion per division per state, not everyone will experience it. No luck in high school?
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By Jonathan Timm LocalSportsJournal.com Muskegon – Muskegon Clippers Coach Logan Fkeener got to taste a little bit of everything during his days in the dugout at the historic Marsh Field. After a four-season stretch, Fleener is now moving to a new opportunity as an assistant coach at Tennessee Wesleyan. The Clippers’ skipper tucked in 94 wins, two All-Star coaching bids and one Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League Championship appearance during his time in Muskegon.
MBTA opens up about new subway car delivery delays
THE MBTA pulled back the curtain a bit on Wednesday about what's causing crippling delays in the production of new Red and Orange Line trains by a Chinese manufacturer and its assembly plant in Springfield. Jeffrey Gonneville, the T's interim general manager, said the Chinese company, CRRC, was supposed to deliver all 152 new Orange Line cars by December 2022, but so far has delivered only 78.
MBTA to pay for New Bedford pedestrian bridge
Tracking Transportation/ Transportation $21m span designed to connect with commuter rail station STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE NEW BEDFORD OFFICIALS say the city will not be on the hook for any construction costs associated with a $21 million pedestrian bridge that will provide a link to a new downtown inter-city rail station. New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell's office reported Tuesday that after more than a year of talks, the MBTA has agreed to design and build the walkway over John F.
Special treatment considered for revenue from millionaire tax
TOP BUDGET OFFICIALS from the Legislature say they intend to abide by the will of the voters and make sure all revenue from the new millionaire tax goes to "new initiatives" in transportation and education. Exactly what would qualify as a "new initiative" hasn't been decided yet (is a new bus or subway car a new initiative?), nor has any decision been made on whether the money would be evenly split between education and transportation. "That's all to be discussed," said Sen.
MBTA stepping up efforts to halt Green Line speeding
FACED WITH a long delay before anti-collision technology can be fully installed on the Green Line, the MBTA is moving ahead with interim measures designed to avoid collisions and refining efforts to discourage and eventually prevent speeding. MBTA officials say they are already cracking down on speeding and planning to install technology to avoid collisions beginning in January 2024, more than a year ahead of the June 2025 full install date for the complete $212 million anti-collision system.
Gonneville promises T board a briefing on train manufacturer
MBTA OFFICIALS said they have narrowed their investigation into the latest safety problem with new Orange Line vehicles and plan to brief the transit authority's board starting next week on strategies for dealing with the manufacturer. The manufacturer, the Chinese company CRRC MA, is facing pressure from the T to produce new Red and Orange Line vehicles faster and with fewer bugs, but frustration is building.
Lawsuit alleges racial discrimination in tenant screening tool
TWO BLACK WOMEN from Massachusetts are at the center of what could become a landmark federal case about whether software that screens potential tenants is illegally biased against Black and Hispanic applicants. Rachael Rollins, the US attorney for Massachusetts, weighed in on the case, Louis vs. SafeRent Solutions, in a court brief this week, arguing that the technology used by tenant screening companies must comply with anti-discrimination rules. "Algorithms are written by people.
Mass. Business Roundtable official appointed to Healey cabinet
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE LAUREN JONES, a Massachusetts Business Roundtable official who at one point worked as communications director for the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, was announced Wednesday as Gov. Maura Healey's pick to lead that secretariat. Jones held a number of roles with the city of Boston under Mayor Martin Walsh, in state government working for Gov. Deval Patrick and Lt. Gov. Tim Murray, and in the private sector at the Mass.
Getting Boston on board with e-bikes
By making biking easier, faster, and more sweat-free, electric bikes (e-bikes) have shown to be a hit. Americans bought nearly 500,000 in 2020, compared to less than half that number of electric automobiles (popularly referred to as electric vehicles, or EVs). "The popularity of e-bikes isn't slowing down," the New York Times recently. Taking note, cities and states around the country have rushed to get electrified two-wheelers on the streets.
Guest Column: How Mayor Michelle Wu Can Put Racial Equity in the Fast Lane
Boston City Councilor and mayoral candidate Michelle Wu, photographed at the Forest Hills Orange Line station on August 25, 2021. Michelle Wu has been sworn in as the city’s next mayor. Wu’s victory is significant on many fronts: she’s a bona fide progressive, the first woman, mother, person of color, and Asian American to be elected as mayor, and she has a track record of backing up her bold ideas with results.
How Unions Help Moms Take Maternity Leave
Read: Life in the only industrialized country without paid maternity leave But forthcoming research shows that an old-fashioned institution can help solve that problem: unions. In a peer-reviewed to be published early next year in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, a team of researchers led by the Vanderbilt University professor Tae-Youn Park found that union-represented women in the U.S. are 17 percent more likely to take maternity leave than women not represented by a union.
Veteran Organizer Gives Inside Look at the First $15 Minimum Wage Campaign
Back in 2011, as the Occupy Wall Street movement was still spreading through the country, a smaller standoff was unfolding at Sea-Tac, the international airport in the small, eponymous town between Seattle and Tacoma that serves both cities. Along with some of her coworkers, Zainab Aweis, a Somali Muslim shuttle driver for Hertz car rental, was on her way to take a break for prayer, when her manager stepped in front of the doorway. "If you guys pray, you go home," the manager said.
SAP BusinessObjects Cloud - Enabling SAML SSO for live connections to SAP HANA in SCP
One compelling feature of SAP BusinessObjects Cloud (BOC) is the ability to establish live connections with external data sources such as SAP HANA, SAP BW, and S/4 HANA. This blog post is meant to summarize the steps necessary for BOC to connect to and consume a SAP HANA database hosted on the SAP Cloud Platform. The scope of this post is to provide read access to one or more existing BOC users.
Why Fair Scheduling Could Be Labor’s Next Big Fight
A series of citywide ordinances are taking aim at erratic and unpredictable scheduling. When Jamal Targa, 29, worked as a pizza delivery driver in San Francisco, he says his boss would regularly call him just hours after he’d finished driving for the night to demand he show up to work the morning shift. Although shifts were scheduled ahead of time, the boss switched them at the last minute to deal with fluctuations in demand or to replace unavailable drivers.
Can the Alt-Labor Movement Protect Women Workers Where Unions Have Failed?
The labor movement was once led by male union bosses representing a mostly male workforce. They fought for protections that tended to benefit men; in some cases, male union leaders brushed aside the needs and priorities of women or excluded them altogether.
The Plight of the Overworked Nonprofit Employee
Do mission-driven organizations with tight budgets have any choice but to demand long, unpaid hours of their staffs? Jonathan Timm Aug 24, 2016 welzevoul / Cameron Whitman / Shutterstock / Zak Bickel / The Atlantic Earlier this year, at the encouragement of President Obama, the Department of Labor finalized the most significant update to the federal rules on overtime in decades. The new rules will more than double the salary threshold for guaranteed overtime pay, from about $23,000 to $47,476.
Can Millennials Save Unions?
In 2008, Emma Bell Bern had just graduated from college and was ready to start living on her own. Leaving behind the rural college town of Galesburg, Illinois, she set off for Chicago for her first big-city experience. She got a job as a barista at a Peet’s Coffee and Tea on the city’s North Side. Bell Bern liked working at Peet’s.
“Men’s rights” group’s sad reality: Behind the doors of a depressing confab
At the VFW Hall in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, the First International Conference on Men’s Issues is about to begin. Attila Vinczer, the emcee, takes the stage. Before introducing Paul Elam, the founder of A Voice for Men, the organization running the conference, Vinczer wants to make something known. “The fundamental, most important point is that we are safe,” Vinczer says. “We have security. Anyone that violates our rules, or becomes intolerable, will be ejected.” I didn’t doubt it.
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