Manufacturing News of Note: February 2018

Jesse Garant Metrology now offers casting scanning services using a 3-MeV, cone-beam X-ray source with a large-format, 2,000-square-pixel flat-panel digital detector, said to be the first of its kind. Jesse Garant Metrology Center is announcing the launch of its new high-energy industrial computed tomography system.

MI: Detroit’s QLINE is Open for Streetcar Riders

Following a flurry of speeches about Detroit transit and all the fanfare of a big historical event; after a performance by the Cass Tech marching band, Detroit's streetcar line opened for business today. After a ceremonial trip for dignitaries pulled up at the northbound Grand Circus Park station on Woodward Avenue and unloaded, a quick ribbon-cutting gave way to a large crowd pouring onto a streetcar wrapped for the occasion with Detroit images and a quote near the top of the car from poet Jessica Care Moore: For those who came to the grand opening of the 3.3-mile streetcar line, the moment appeared to represent a starting line for a region's hopes about itself.

‘It was a vote against me’: Trump win strikes fear into American Muslim community

People voting at Oakman Elementary School in the US presidential election on November 8, 2016 in Dearborn, Michigan. Fear and shock were expressed by American Muslims after Republican Donald Trump was confirmed as president-elect of the US after months of anti-Islamic stands.