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March is Ladder Safety Month: Are your employees properly trained?

One of the most common workplace accidents involves ladder-related injuries. In the United States, over 500,000 people experience ladder-related injuries each year at work or home, and more than 300 people die from such injuries.

Sen. Mike Shirkey is MRA’s 2018 Legislator of the Year

Amy Drumm presents Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey with the 2018 Legislator of the Year award. (Photo by Patrick D. Kerwin)

By AMY DRUMM

State Senator Mike Shirkey (R-Clarklake) is in his second and final term in the Michigan Senate, where he was recently elected Senate Majority Leader by his Republican colleagues for the next four years.

Jeweler Becky Beauchine Kulka: Keen instincts and ‘luck in life’

New MRA board chair talks about her retail evolution

By MEEGAN HOLLAND

As Becky Beauchine Kulka looks back on 30 years as a Michigan jeweler, she laughs at her modest beginnings,