WASHINGTON DC - At the 2015 Washington Auto Show, Volkswagen BMW, together with ChargePoint, the largest electric vehicle charging network, announced an initiative to create express charging corridors along heavily-traveled routes on the East and West Coasts. Designed to increase the number of fast charging locations, the initiative will help meet the large and growing
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation executive committee on Tuesday appointed MEDC Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Steve Arwood as the new MEDC CEO, effective immediately. He replaces Michael A. Finney, who was named Gov. Rick Snyder?s Senior Advisor for Economic Growth in December. Following Arwood?s appointment as MEDC CEO, Snyder named
LANSING - Michigan League of Conservation Voters recognized Governor Snyder for naming energy as a priority in 2015, and said that Michigan cannot afford to delay any longer on a strong energy plan that moves our state towards greater use of clean energy. Michigan LCV gave the Governor a ?neutral? score on How Green is
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder unveiled Tuesday the first piece of his much anticipated energy agenda in saying he will create a new agency that would combine the Public Service Commission with economic development and environmental elements. Snyder will deliver his full energy proposal in March, coming in advance of the state's main energy law,
LANSING - In his first State of the State address of his second term, Governor Rick Snyder said Tuesday that now was an opportunity to make fundamental changes to government, especially in the way it delivered services to persons needing help to get back into the mainstream of life. As part of that effort, Snyder
DETROIT - Forget Kim Kardashian...I think we accidentally broke the internet last week. Or at least our site came close to breaking. One of our posts trended worldwide, and whacky mayhem ensued...but more on that in a moment. We've got several entries for you to check out, we're going to experiment and tweak the way
ANN ARBOR - Based on a survey of physicians by Doximity.com, the U-M Health System and its Medical School ranked No. 6 nationally, for excellence across 20 specialties. The achievement is based on the number of residency training specialties that rank in the top 10 nationally ? in U-M's case, it's 12. Only Massachusetts General
LANSING - StudentsFirst Vice President of State Affairs and former State Representative Tim Melton made the following statement regarding Governor Rick Snyder's State of the State speech. During the speech, Gov. Snyder called for the implementation of teacher and administrator evaluation as well as continued efforts to improve pre-school through 3rd grade reading: "I applaud
LANSING - Michigan's economy is continuing to grow and rebound from the Great Recession, George Fulton, director of the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics at the University of Michigan said Friday, noting that by 2017 the state should gain 531,200 jobs from the 858,400 lost during the previous decade. That constitutes 62 percent of the
KALAMAZOO - After recently completing the first close on a $2.5 million Series A financing round, Armune BioScience Monday announced the appointment of Susan J. Crookston to the position of Chief Financial Officer to continue the company?s preparation for the launch of Apifiny, its non-PSA blood test to aid in the early detection of prostate