July 15th, 20210LANSING — U.S. Senators Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow announced that Detroit Metro Wayne County Airport will receive federal funding.
The airport is expected to receive $111,717,342 in federal funding to come from the American Rescue Plan to help the airport maintain operations and provide economic support that was lost as a...
February 25th, 20210WASHINGTON D.C. — In a vote of 64-35, the Senate confirmed former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm to be secretary of energy.
Granholm was President Biden’s nominee for the role.
In recent years, Granholm has taken a deep interest in energy issues and was even considered to be a top candidate for the role had Hillary...
October 16th, 20201This Sunday, Michigan's top elected officials will be addressing and attending the virtual event, "An evening of unity", sponsored by Yeshiva Beth Yehuda, the self-described "oldest and largest Jewish educational institution in Michigan."
Governor Whitmer, Senator Debbie Stabenow, Senator Gary Peters, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan...
April 27th, 20200Gov. Whitmer said reopening Michigan's economy is slowed by a shortage of COVID-19 tests to screen employees reentering workplaces, and she blames the Trump administration for not responding to states' needs.
Dearborn businessman Ali Siblani said he can make all the test swabs Michigan requires and he blames the state bureaucracy for...
March 15th, 20190DEARBORN — A March 4 meeting between Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) and Arab American community leaders at the La Pita restaurant ended with the senator failing to mollify participants regarding his vote on the anti-BDS bill.
At the meeting, Peters addressed his choice to vote "yes" on Bill S.1, which includes the controversial Combating...
December 14th, 20181WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) will serve as ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the Senate’s principal oversight committee, in the 116th Congress.
The committee is responsible for ensuring all federal departments and agencies are operating effectively and also oversees the...
July 1st, 20180Japanese American protesters: What happened to us should never happen again
WASHINGTON/DEARBORN — Outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, many protesters held signs that read "No Muslim Ban" and "We Will Not Be Banned" as they protested the court's decision to uphold President Trump's travel ban.
However, in the process —...
June 23rd, 20181DEARBORN – As grisly images from “Right of Return” protests along the Gaza-Israeli border become increasingly harder for the American public to ignore, lawmakers across the U.S. are reacting with anti-BDS bills that seek to hamper efforts to boycott the nation’s most significant ally in the Mediterranean – shifting the...
December 2nd, 20170This week, President Trump proved once again, in perhaps the strongest terms to date, that he is unfit to be our leader. The president re-tweeted three misleading anti-Muslim videos, causing a major firestorm in the media. The videos were first tweeted by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of an anti-Islam British party named "Britain...
March 28th, 20170DEARBORN – A meeting on Monday, March 27 with community activists and Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly turned antagonistic, when a local attorney and civil rights advocate pressed Kelly about orders and harassment that target Arabs and Muslims.
The meeting, held at The Arab American National Museum, was a second...
