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‘Shawn Fain lied to us’: Recently laid off UAW workers hold protest
A group of United Auto Workers who were recently laid off held a protest Saturday outside Solidarity House.
“Shawn Fain lied to us, and as a result, Stellantis fired us,” Ashley Wilmoth said.
Wilmoth was one of 539 supplemental, or temporary, Stellantis employees laid off in Metro Detroit earlier this year.
Since the new UAW contract was ratified, 2,800 temporary employees have been converted to full time and around 1,800 temporary employees were let go.
Here’s where a $1M winning Powerball ticket was sold in Michigan
Someone in Michigan won $1 million by matching all five white ball numbers in Saturday night’s Powerball drawing.
The $1 million winning Powerball ticket for the Saturday, March 2, 2024, drawing was purchased at Andale Mexican Grill and Cantina in Commerce Township.
There were no jackpot winners in the Saturday drawing. There were also no $2 million winners. There were four $1 million winners including two people from California, one person from Georgia, and one person from Michigan.
Asking 2 leap day babies all the questions about being born on Feb. 29
Ever wonder what it’s like to be a rare leap year baby? To technically age slower than anyone else? Us, too!
It’s not easy to find people born on a leap day -- February 29 -- when that date only occurs once every four years. Leap years were established as a correction to counter the fact that Earth’s orbit doesn’t exactly fit our 365-day calendar. Scientists say the orbit actually takes about six hours longer than that.
So, having a leap year every four years keeps our calendars on track. Months remain in sync with annual holidays and events, like equinoxes and solstices, and we don’t have to worry about it one bit.
In Hawaii, coral is the foundation of life. What happened to it after the Lahaina wildfire?
Abraham “Snake” Ah Hee rides waves when the surf’s up and dives for octopus and shells when the water is calm. The lifelong Lahaina, Hawaii, resident spends so much time in the ocean that his wife jokes he needs to wet his gills.
But these days Ah Hee is worried the water fronting his Maui hometown may not be safe after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century scorched more than 2,000 buildings in August and left behind piles of toxic debris. He is concerned runoff could carry contaminants into the ocean where they could get into the coral, seaweed and food chain.
“Now with all these things happening, you don’t know if the fish is good to eat,” Ah Hee said.
Scientists say there has never been another instance of a large urban fire burning next to a coral reef anywhere in the world and they are using the Maui wildfire as a chance to study how chemicals and metals from burned plastics, lead paint and lithium-ion batteries might affect delicate reef ecosystems.