Gary Peters: “Certainly folks who are able to get these software jobs are going to do extremely well, and God bless them for doing…”

Making sure we can recruit and retain highly skilled professionals for this essential workforce will improve railway safety in communities across the country.

It now has state of the art equipment there to train crews on how to clean up oil spills, so we don’t have to wait two weeks for a submersible. It can be there like in an hour and a half, it’s very close. We’re gaining the expertise there…

I feel deeply honored to receive this recognition and I’m thrilled to celebrate this new community space alongside residents and partners.

“While this is a positive step forward, the job is not finished until full operations are restored at every impacted Coast Guard station in Michigan, and I’ll keep pushing until that happens.”