Biden announces nominee for FMCSA boss
Meera Joshi, who has served as the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s acting administrator since the Biden administration took office in January, is the president’s nominee to head up the agency that oversees the trucking industry.
FMCSA Acting Administrator Meera JoshiJoshi was one of 10 nominations announced by the White House Wednesday to fill posts at various agencies related to climate and transportation.
If confirmed by the Senate, Joshi will be the first person to hold the title of FMCSA Administrator since Ray Martinez left the post in 2019. Jim Mullen served as acting administrator after Martinez left. When Mullen retired from the agency last summer, Wiley Deck led the agency as deputy administrator from September until Jan. 20.
FedEx Chairman and CEO Fred Smith voiced his opposition to a corporate tax hike as the way to pay for U.S. infrastructure improvements proposed by President Joe Biden. FedEx fully supports the rebuilding of American infrastructure, Smith said in a letter Monday to the company s U.S. employees. However, the current corporate tax proposals in the Administration’s plan will reduce capital investment and significantly degrade U.S. competitiveness.
Biden s American Jobs Plan would invest $2 trillion in U.S. infrastructure and other areas if passed by Congress.
Biden wants to raise taxes on corporations to pay for the eight-year spending package. He proposed increasing the corporate tax rate to 28% – raising the level set in President Donald Trump s tax cuts in 2017 – and overhauling how the United States taxes multinational corporations by increasing the minimum tax on U.S. corporations to 21%.
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Back in the Day: News from April 7, 1892
Linda Ciangi
Special to the Ionia Sentinel-Standard
THE IONIA DAILY SENTINEL, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1892 The Gaiety Burlesque Company is here and stopping at the Hotel Dexter. They advertise A car load of Pretty Girls in Grand Marches and Ballads.
Wm. A. Smith of East Main street got his hand badly jammed this afternoon at the mill at Prairie Creek. Dr. Defendorf dressed it.
A child of turnkey Fred Smith is reported to be stricken with diphtheria by Drs. Cope and Tremayne. He lives on Front street.
SERIOUS FIRE AT BELDING. APRIL 11. (Sp l cor.) Fire broke out in the kitchen of the Hotel Bricker at 11 o clock last night from a defective flue. The entire Bricker Block consisting of the hotel and six stores was destroyed, also a dwelling in the rear occupied by Mrs. Piefer. The stores were occupied by A. Wagner, grocer; H. Moore, restaurant; W. F. Bricker, clothing and fancy goods; R. Skinner, Crystal Palace saloon; and H. D. Miller, hotel
by Tyler Durden
By Mark Solomon of FreightWaves,
There is no love lost between Jeff Bezos and Fred Smith, given the unpleasant break- up of their companies’ shipping marriage in 2019.
Yet in decisively thwarting efforts to organize 5,800 workers at Amazon.com s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse, Bezos took a page right from the FedEx founder’s anti-union playbook.
Other than about 5,000 unionized pilots that came over after FedEx acquired the old Flying Tiger Line cargo airline in 1988, and a smattering of workers at its FedEx Freight LTL unit, FedEx has remained non-union for its 50-year history. Smith and Co. have beaten back multiple organizing efforts by persuading FedEx workers that wages, benefits, working conditions and an open-door relationship makes third-party bargaining units irrelevant.