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Buzz Hargrove and the rotten corporatist legacy of the Canadian Auto Workers—Part 2
World Socialist Web Site
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August 1, 2025
This is the second and concluding part of a two part article. The first part can be found here. Shackling the working class to the union-NDP-Liberal alliance During Hargrove’s 16 years as CAW president and in tandem with its ever more naked role...
Inside the tariffs: what Trump's latest moves mean for B.C. businesses
Mission Record
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August 1, 2025
Older trade agreements like CUSMA still stand, but Canadian businesses need to fill out the proper paperwork The threat of tariffs on Canadian goods being shipped to the United States began almost immediately after Donald Trump was re-elected...
Analysis: Padres were again boldest team at MLB trade deadline
Chattanooga Times Free Press - Tennessee
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August 1, 2025
For the second time in four years, San Diego Padres general manager A.J. Preller turned his team into the biggest stars of Major League Baseball's nonwaiver trade deadline. In 2022, he snagged slugger Juan Soto by sending shortstop CJ Abrams,...
Rx Kids expands to Clare County, offering financial aid to pregnant women and new mothers
Mid-Michigan Now
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FARWELL, Mich.— Rx Kids is expanding to Clare County. As the nation’s first community-wide initiative to provide direct financial support to pregnant women and babies, Rx Kids will offer eligible mothers $1,500 during pregnancy and $500 per month...
Jack Tuttle puts Michigan freshman Bryce Underwood in elite company
Sporting News
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August 1, 2025
The Michigan Wolverines are going all-in on Bryce Underwood as the future of their program. He’s not just arriving in Ann Arbor as a true freshman — he’s doing so as the No. 1 recruit in the nation, carrying the weight of major expectations. That...
Utz to shutter Michigan plant, lay off 75 workers
Food Dive
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August 1, 2025
Dive Brief: Utz Brands plans to close its manufacturing facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan to cut costs and optimize its supply chain footprint. Manufacturing operations will end Jan. 30 and warehouse operations on May 26, the company said in a...
Evaluating MLB Trade Deadline for Each NL Central Team
Newsweek
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August 1, 2025
As were most teams, the teams in the National League Central were active at the trade deadline. Three of them were buyers and the other two were sellers. Let's do a quick breakdown of the trade deadline for each of the respective teams. DETROIT,...
Opinion | Don’t be fooled, Michigan. Medicaid cuts will impact your care
Bridge Michigan
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August 1, 2025
When hospitals close or cut vital services in the wake of Medicaid funding reductions, there is one very clear reason why those decisions will need to be made: Because the federal government just slashed the lifeblood of health-care delivery...
Money & Me‘Starting a company helped me attain financial independence’
The National News
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Deepika Nahata became an entrepreneur when she identified a pain point for many working households: doing the laundry. Partnering with a close relative, she launched WashOn Laundry as a family business in Dubai just before the Covid-19 pandemic....
Texas oil tycoon gives $5 million to super PAC supporting Michigan Senate hopeful Mike Rogers
The Derrick and The News-Herald - Pennsylvania
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WASHINGTON — Texan Timothy Dunn, the CEO of the oil and gas exploration company CrownQuest Operating, was the top donor so far this year to the Great Lakes Conservatives Fund, giving $5 million to the outside group supporting Republican Mike...
Micah Parsons trade request: 6 teams, including Lions and Bills, in the run to land Cowboys star
Hindustan Times
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August 1, 2025
Micah Parsons could be leaving the Dallas Cowboys soon. The 26-year-old edge rusher requested a trade, urging Jerry Jones and co to reach a contract deal. While the franchise is yet to issue an official statement on the situation, it is being...
Baseball Notebook: AL trade deadline winners and losers
New Hampshire Union Leader
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August 1, 2025
The Red Sox didn’t play Thursday, and still, they lost ground in the playoff race. In part, that’s because the Yankees did play and won. But the bigger issue was how much better the competition got while the Red Sox, running to stand still, made...
Phillies notebook: Jhoan Duran and Harrison Bader arrive, Rob Thomson outlines post-trade deadline plans
Philly Voice
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August 1, 2025
With the trade deadline finally in the rearview mirror, the Phillies can singularly focus on themselves. They have a new closer, and Jhoan Duran is one of the most dominant relievers there is. Harrison Bader, also acquired from the Minnesota...
World Series 2025 Updated Odds: 5 favorites to win after trade deadline ft. Mets, Tigers
Sportskeeda
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August 1, 2025
At the trade deadline, several teams contending to win the World Series made important acquisitions to improve their rosters. Naturally, such trades carry the potential of vastly improving a team's chances for success in the postseason, and this...
What to know about Twins owners amid trade deadline fire…
Watertown Public Opinion - South Dakota
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MLB teams shedding salary − whether it be midseason at the trade deadline or choosing not to extend certain players − shouldn't be new for MLB fans. But as Minnesota Twins fans watched a team just 5.5 games back of a wild-card berth get stripped...
MLB Trade Deadline Winners and Losers: Suárez has huge change, Helsley now a drop
NBC Sports
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August 1, 2025
The 2025 MLB Trade Deadline is behind us, and so now comes the time to make sense of the consequences. In this article, I’ll look at the players who gained or lost the most fantasy value in the aftermath of the deadline. I usually hate the term...
Gas line break in west Toledo repaired, Lewis Avenue reopened
WTOL 11 - Ohio
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August 1, 2025
A residence that was evacuated Friday afternoon is able to return home, according to a spokesperson for Columbia Gas. TOLEDO, Ohio — A gas line break in west Toledo was fixed and the nearby road reopened Friday night after a drilling company...
Republican super PACs bank millions ahead of midterm battles
NBC News
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August 1, 2025
Republicans are betting that they can defend their slim congressional majorities in next year’s midterm elections, and the party’s biggest donors are putting their chips on the table, too. New fundraising reports filed Thursday for outside groups...
Marquette AI company helps improve grant access
Upper Michigan´s Source
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August 1, 2025
MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - A Marquette Artificial Intelligence company is working with a nonprofit to ensure your tax money goes right back into your community. “We are taking people who have historically been at the back of the line of technology,...
Micah Parsons' dad once named Chiefs, Steelers, Lions as preferred trade destinations
Sporting News
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August 1, 2025
With Micah Parsons officially requesting a trade from the Dallas Cowboys, an old clip of his father, Terrence Parsons, talking about preferred destinations for his son in a hypothetical trade scenario has resurfaced. During an appearance on the...