Ron Gettelfinger Posted: September 3, 2009 10:56 AM  The Cause of Our Lives: Meaningful Health Care Reform   Our Labor Day celebrations this year will be touched by sadness for the loss of our great friend Ted Kennedy.   A frequent visitor to UAW local union halls, he liked to tell us about his first [...]

September 3, 2009 Bill would add $216M to new vehicle research By Justin Hyde Free Press Washington Staff WASHINGTON — The U.S. House will consider a proposal this month from Rep. Gary Peters that would boost federal spending on research into new vehicle technologies by $216 million. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and Peters, [...]

September 4, 2009 Chairman’s blunt talk rocks GM execs   BY TOM WALSH FREE PRESS COLUMNIST   Ed Whitacre Jr., the blunt-speaking new chairman of General Motors Co., is clearly rattling the long-too-comfy cages of GM’s management ranks. On Wednesday, Whitacre told a group of GM salaried staff — in one of several "diagonal slice" [...]