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KonaBody”> LANSING, Michigan – As a trained aerospace engineer, Patrick Colbeck applied his penchant for data analysis and “systematic approach” to his new job in early 2011: a Michigan state senator, recently elected and keen to create jobs in the faded industrial powerhouse. Those skills paid off handsomely for the first-term Republican this week as Governor Rick Snyder signed into law bills co-sponsored by Colbeck that ban mandatory union membership, making Michigan the nation’s 24th right-to-work state. From outside Michigan Republican circles, it appeared that the Republican drive to weaken unions came out of the blue – proposed, passed and [...]

There’s an unfortunate surprise waiting at the end of those long gas lines in the Northeast: sharply higher prices. Gas prices jumped across New York and New Jersey over the weekend as officials rationed gas from the stations that remained open after Superstorm Sandy. The price increases are a final blow to the region, experts say. They won’t spread to other parts of the country. Outside of the Northeast, gas prices have been dropping, and they’re expected to continue to do so. The national average gas price fell to $ 3.47 per gallon Monday, and it could drop as low [...]

A U.S. appeals court overturned a preliminary injunction on the sale of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd’s Galaxy Nexus smartphone on Thursday, dealing a blow to Apple Inc in a battle against Google Inc’s increasingly popular mobile software. Apple is waging war on several fronts against Google, whose Android software powers many of the Korean giant’s devices. In one of the more visible signs of that battle, a high-wattage trial to determine whether Samsung’s products infringed on Apple patents ended in August with a sweeping victory for the iPhone maker. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that [...]

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