WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for the establishment of a small business transportation resource center to provide assistance in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. The award ceiling for this funding opportunity is $232,000. The agency said the grant was associated with business and commerce. The funding is open to public and   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for research on fish responses to climate change in lakes in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $327,773. The agency said the grant was associated with science and technology and other research and development.  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that it expects to award up to six discretionary grants for all-hazards emergency preparedness in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $49,703,533. The funding is open to state or territorial governments; state administrative agencies; or the state emergency management agencies. The agency description   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it expects to award up to 40 cooperative agreements for Great Lakes wetland and upland habitat restoration to conserve fish and wildlife population in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $500,000 with a ceiling of $100,000 for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was a  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Feb. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Midwest Regional Information Office issued the following news release: In 2019, union members accounted for 13.6 percent of wage and salary workers in Michigan, compared with 14.5 percent in 2018, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. Assistant Commissioner for Regional Operations Charlene Peiffer noted that the union membership rate for the state was at its peak in 1989, when it averaged 26.0 perc  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $70,000 cooperative agreement to the Copper County Intermediate School District of Hancock, Michigan, for the development of youth outreach programs at the Keweenaw National Historical Park. The agency description of the grant states: "Keweenaw National Historical Park and the CCISD have been educational partners for the past 15 years. Collaboratively, the two organizations wo  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news story: Most Medal of Honor recipients earned the award during combat, but that's not the case for everyone. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Owen Francis Patrick Hammerberg, a boatswain's mate, is one of the few recipients who earned it for his heroic efforts outside of normal duty. Hammerberg was born May 31, 1920, and grew up on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. His family moved around and landed in Flint during Hammerberg  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration issued the following news release: U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation will award $400,500 in airport safety and infrastructure grants to Sawyer International Airport in Michigan. This investment in Michigan's airports is part of a $520.5 million national investment in America's airports that was announced by Secretary Chao. "This $52  more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, Feb. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Great Lakes Regional Field Office issued the following news release: Dairy herds in Michigan produced 974 million pounds of milk during January, up 1.7 percent from a year ago, according to Marlo Johnson, Regional Director of USDA, NASS, Great Lakes Regional Office. Production per cow in Michigan averaged 2,280 pounds for January, 20 pounds above January 2019. The dairy herd was e  more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, Feb. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Great Lakes Regional Field Office issued the following news release: The number of farms in Michigan in 2019 was 47,000, according to Marlo Johnson, Director of the USDA, NASS, Great Lakes Regional Office. Land in farms was 9.8 million acres, unchanged from last year. The average size farm in Michigan was 209 acres per farm, constant from 2018. The number of farms in the United   more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, Feb. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Great Lakes Regional Field Office issued the following news release: Potato Stocks in Michigan on February 1, 2020, were estimated at 8.0 million hundredweight (cwt), up 19 percent from last year's 6.7 million cwt. February's stocks represent 40 percent of the total production. Stocks include potatoes stored by both processors and growers. The major potato States held 204 million   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -- The National Labor Relations Board issued the following decision and direction of election (Case No. 07-RC-255234) by Region 7 Director Terry A. Morgan: MICHIGAN PAVING AND MATERIALS COMPANY, Employer and LOCAL 324, INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERS (IUOE), AFL-CIO, Petitioner DECISION AND DIRECTION OF ELECTION Petitioner seeks to represent a unit of all full-time and regular part-time, asphalt plant operators, paving, milling, prep crew, grading operators an  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Risk Management Agency has issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Risk Management Agency (RMA) announced a new crop insurance pilot program, Nursery Value Select (NVS), for crop year 2021. NVS is another crop insurance option for nursery crop producers, including those growing hemp, in addition to the Nursery crop insurance program. NVS is available in select counties in Alabama, Colorado, Flor  more