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Congressmen Mike Bishop and Tim Walberg conducted a hearing today, to hear from witnesses on why a new policy by the Department of Labor, could be restricting to the ever-changing workforce.

Uber, Lyft and Air B&B are all self contracted jobs, and they are growing in popularity, but this new policy could be the end of these new start up businesses.

"While this may sound good because employees get some extra protection that individual contractors don't, but getting those protections comes with giving up flexibility," Manhattan Institute Fellow Jared Meyers said.

More than 70 years later, U.S. Marine Corps veteran Lyman Cory still remembers seeing the American flag raised on Mount Suribachi during the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima.
Wounded in that battle, Cory recalled that time again Friday when he was presented with his own American flag.

Standing before an audience of mostly family, he had to pause, trying to control inevitable emotion, as he recalled a soldier he knew only as Able.

Able took a fatal shot in the neck as he moved to support Lyman Cory, a young private in the U.S. Marines fighting in his first battle, Iwo Jima, during World War II.

Only a day earlier, Able had confided he was weary of war and desperate for a superficial injury that would send him away from the front.

A decade ago, heroin use in Lenawee County was rare, according to law enforcement personnel.

Today, said Detective Lt. Aaron Hunt from the state police's Region of Irish Hills Narcotics Office, the drug that claims lives can be found nearly everywhere.

At a House Oversight Committee hearing today, Rep. Walberg continued to press for answers and accountability at every level on the Flint water crisis, including why the EPA didn't intervene and take action as soon as they knew this human tragedy was happening. Over the weekend, Rep. Walberg visited Flint and met with the mayor and other local officials, toured the water treatment facility, and talked with residents at a community meeting.

HILLSDALE — Congressman Tim Walberg (R), 7th District, met with students of the Hillsdale College chapter of the Student Veterans of America Thursday afternoon.

The informal meeting was organized by Hillsdale College senior Michael Aavang who is currently participating in a Legislative Fellowship through the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Aavang himself is a former active duty United States Marine.

Aavang opened up discussion by introducing a draft legislative piece aimed at balancing out privatization of health care through the Veterans Affairs administration.