From the Freep.com come news of an event that might be kind of interesting to folks in the area/on campus tomorrow: “Two from Obama’s team to be in southeast Michigan on Tuesday.” Here’s the whole article:
President Barack Obama’s labor secretary and director of recovery for auto communities will head to Romulus and Yspilanti on Tuesday – a day after General Motors filed for reorganization in bankruptcy court in New York.
At 10 a.m., Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and Ed Montgomery, the Obama administration’s point person for linking hard-hit auto communities with federal resources, will go to GM’s Romulus Engine plant, meeting with Gov. Jennifer Granholm, U.S. Rep. John Dingell of Dearborn, and management and union leadership at the plant.
At 11:30 a.m., they will hold a worker roundtable at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti that focuses on available job retraining programs.
This event will be open to the media but is not open to the general public.
I was getting ready to say “hey, a good opportunity to find out what’s going on in our government and in our area about such an important topic.” But then I saw this part about “not open to the general public? What the hell?! Who is it open to? And why is EMU playing host to some sort of dog n’ pony show that EMU students/faculty/staff (I assume they would constitute “general public”) can’t attend?
