Sep 17, 2009 | Legislative
Several MITA companies have already taken up the industry challenge of 1,000 calls to legislator offices and signed up for legislator call days for their employees. AIS Construction Equipment, Michigan CAT, JDE Equipment Company, Wolverine Tractor and Equipment and...
Sep 1, 2009 | Legislative
Legislators are coming back to the state capitol after taking a summer recess and with your company’s help, the message will be clear: It’s time to fix our roads. MITA has made it a goal that legislator offices will receive over 1,000 calls from the toll-free number...
Jul 30, 2009 | Legislative
This week, the U.S. Agriculture Secretary announced the selection of six rural water projects for Michigan being funded immediately through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The projects will help provide safe drinking water and improved wastewater treatment...
Jul 29, 2009 | Legislative
Hope for the enactment of a long term transportation bill this year has all but vanished when Rep. James Oberstar (D-MN), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, testifying at a hearing of a House Ways and Means Subcommittee on July 23,...
Jul 20, 2009 | Legislative
While state policymakers sit on their hands and take the summer off and do nothing to address the needs of Michigan, the state’s roads and bridges continue to crumble around them. MITA recently established a toll free number (1-888-719-3087) so that people who care...
Jun 5, 2009 | Legislative
If legislators do nothing more than ensure Michigan receives it’s full federal match of highway dollars for next year, the state will be able to pave less than half the miles of roadway it did five years earlier. That’s the message that MITA has been sharing with...
