Posts tagged with "COVID-19"

Home Depot in Dearborn Heights fined $4,000 for COVID-19 violations COMMUNITY

Home Depot in Dearborn Heights fined $4,000 for COVID-19 violations

September 17th, 20200 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — The Home Depot on Michigan Avenue in Dearborn Heights is one of 19 businesses in Michigan that have been fined by the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) for serious violations of COVID-19 safety guidelines. The $4,000 citation is for violations of COVID-19 workplace safety...
Dearborn Public Schools extend virtual learning until Oct. 12 COMMUNITY

Dearborn Public Schools extend virtual learning until Oct. 12

September 16th, 20200 DEARBORN — Dearborn’s Board of Education voted to extend the district's virtual learning at its Sept. 14 board meeting. The school year started on Aug. 31 with the idea of returning to classrooms on Oct. 1. The city of Dearborn has continued to have a high number of COVID-19 cases per resident in recent weeks and according to...
Canada and U.S. border to remain closed until Oct. 21 COMMUNITY

Canada and U.S. border to remain closed until Oct. 21

September 16th, 20200 DETROIT - The border between the U.S. and Canada will remain closed to non-essential travel for another month until at least Oct. 21. The restrictions on travel between the U.S. and Canada were first announced on March 18 and have been extended every month since. CBC News reported that Canadians should expect the border to be...
Dearborn Heights D7 schools COVID-19 update: 1 student, 1 staff positive COMMUNITY

Dearborn Heights D7 schools COVID-19 update: 1 student, 1 staff positive

September 14th, 20200 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — The Dearborn Heights D7 School District has launched a new COVID-19 dashboard on its website, updating families of the latest on confirmed COVID-19 cases in the district. The online tool shows that as of Sept. 11, one student and one staff member are confirmed positive for the coronavirus. As of that date, 18...
Free drive-through COVID-19 testing coming to Hamtramck for this weekend COMMUNITY

Free drive-through COVID-19 testing coming to Hamtramck for this weekend

September 11th, 20200 HAMTRAMCK — County and state officials have struck a partnership to bring free drive-through testing for non-symptomatic residents at Bridge Academy East School in the city of Hamtramck this Saturday and Sunday. Testing will be performed at the Bridge Academy East parking lot on 9600 Buffalo Street, one block east of Conant. No...
Hamtramck public schools responds to retaliation lawsuit by former vice principal COMMUNITY

Hamtramck public schools responds to retaliation lawsuit by former vice principal

September 11th, 20200 HAMTRAMCK — A former vice principal from the Hamtramck Public School District (HPS) has filed a lawsuit against her employer for alleged retaliatory acts against her that she says violated her employment rights. The complaint, filed in the Eastern District Court, says Christina Adamczyk, a Sterling Heights resident, was subjected to...
Unemployed Michigan workers to receive $300 payments over next week to 10 days COMMUNITY

Unemployed Michigan workers to receive $300 payments over next week to 10 days

September 10th, 20200 LANSING — The Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) announced it has started processing payments for Lost Wages Assistance (LWA) for eligible Michiganders. Due to the large volume of payments to be processed, the UIA says workers will begin receiving LWA payments over the next week to 10 days. Michigan applied to the Federal...
Dearborn schools resume classes with a first week "soft start" COMMUNITY

Dearborn schools resume classes with a first week “soft start”

September 4th, 20200 DEARBORN — After months of planning and debate, Dearborn Public Schools opened classes for its students this week. A “soft start”, beginning Monday, Aug. 31, saw the school district open up with an amended half-day schedule for the first week, to allow students and their parents and teachers adapt to the online-only instruction...
Governor Whitmer allows gyms, pools to reopen and organized sports to resume COMMUNITY

Governor Whitmer allows gyms, pools to reopen and organized sports to resume

September 3rd, 20200 LANSING — Having been closed since March, gym owners and other business owners have been asking the governor when they’d be allowed to reopen. Governor Whitmer answered those questions with a new executive order. This executive order allows gyms, pools, bowling alleys and organized sports to reopen effective Wednesday, Sept....
Ford announces 1,400 salaried job cuts through buyouts by end of year COMMUNITY

Ford announces 1,400 salaried job cuts through buyouts by end of year

September 2nd, 20200 DEARBORN — The Dearborn-based automotive giant Ford Motor Co. has announced it is seeking to cut 1,400 salaried positions through a buy out program by the end of this year. The job eliminations are part of an $11 billion restructuring. Ford told its employees of the voluntary buyouts through a company email. The buyouts will be...
Driver’s license, vehicle renewal extension will expire Sept. 30 COMMUNITY

Driver’s license, vehicle renewal extension will expire Sept. 30

September 1st, 20200 LANSING — Those Michiganders whose driver's license, state ID or vehicle registration expires between March 1 and Sept. 30 have until Sept. 30 to complete their renewals, the Michigan Department of State (MDOS) announced today. With that deadline now a month away, MDOS is encouraging drivers who haven’t completed their renewals...
Two European patients re-infected with coronavirus World

Two European patients re-infected with coronavirus

August 25th, 20200 AMSTERDAM/BRUSSELS (Reuters) — Two European patients are confirmed to have been re-infected with the coronavirus, raising concerns about people’s immunity to the virus as the world struggles to tame the pandemic. The cases, in Belgium and the Netherlands, follow a report this week by researchers in Hong Kong about a man there who...
Trump administration classifies teachers essential workers during pandemic Health

Trump administration classifies teachers essential workers during pandemic

August 21st, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. (REUTERS) – On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security classified teachers as essential workers during the coronavirus pandemic as the Trump administration presses schools nationwide to bring students back to class. The move comes as new COVID-19 infections have fallen for four weeks in a row in Texas and...
Dubai changes its alcohol consumption laws to help its economy COMMUNITY

Dubai changes its alcohol consumption laws to help its economy

August 21st, 20200 DUBAI - While the United Arab Emirates struggles to regain its economic footing during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dubai has once again loosened its alcohol consumption laws. Previously in Dubai, non-Muslim residents were required to carry plastic red cards issued by police in order to purchase alcohol. Otherwise they’d face action from...
Commercial real estate struggling during COVID-19 pandemic COMMUNITY

Commercial real estate struggling during COVID-19 pandemic

August 15th, 20200 While the housing market has been booming during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, commercial real estate continues to struggle as more and more businesses are having to shut their doors. Realtor Dave Abdallah said that another reason for the struggling market is fear. “In general, the real estate market is doing extremely...
Pandemic opportune time for Trump to pursue aggressive immigration policy COMMUNITY

Pandemic opportune time for Trump to pursue aggressive immigration policy

August 14th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C — A new report by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) shows the breadth of changes to immigration policy enacted during the Trump administration.  The report collects for posterity and analysis of broad sweeping changes and technical adjustments to the immigration system in the U.S., with more than 400 executive...
WHO director: Half of daily 100,000 COVID-19 cases in Americas are in the U.S. U.S.A

WHO director: Half of daily 100,000 COVID-19 cases in Americas are in the U.S.

August 11th, 20200 BRASILIA (REUTERS) — More than 100,000 cases of COVID-19 are being reported daily in the Americas, half of them in the U.S., and there are worrisome spikes in countries that had outbreaks controlled, such as Argentina and Colombia, World Health Organization Regional Director Carissa Etienne said on Tuesday. “Our region remains...
Dearborn Schools to start year online, with optional in-school support COMMUNITY

Dearborn Schools to start year online, with optional in-school support

August 11th, 20200 DEARBORN — The Dearborn Public Schools Board of Education agreed Monday night for the district to start the school year online for all students. Students from preschool through high school will take classes online at least until the first week of October. The board will reevaluate conditions later in September to see if it is...
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