GRAND RAPIDS ?The Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center will be hosting several workshops through the end of the year designed to assess the needs of small business owners and equip them with the tools they need to not only start, but also successfully run their businesses. The workshops bring together several experienced business
ADELAIDE, Australia - The University of Michigan solar car team finished 7th in the World Solar Challenge after losing 10 racing hours to a race accident. Just seven kilometers into the Challenge, the U-M lead vehicle was cut off by the Stanford Solar Car Team and forced to break quickly. The U-M solar car, Continuum,
LANSING - A month before it is scheduled to take effect, the Michigan Senate Thursday passed a bill to postpone the business services tax, while a petition e drive to repeal the measure was announced. SB 845 passed the Senate on a 22-12 vote, with Sen. Glenn Anderson (D-Westland) and Sen. James Barcia (D-Bay City)
LANSING - Business and environmental groups appeared to be starting on largely the same side as the Senate Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Committee began discussions on adopting the Great Lakes Compact. Both groups urged legislation that would adopt the compact, which essentially creates a regional authority over use of Great Lakes waters. But environmental
LANSING ? Michigan legislators wacked some $433 million from the new budget, yet most of the bills sent to the governor's desk contain more general fund spending than the budgets replaced. That said, some budgets, such as higher education and community colleges, will see more general fund monies in their this budget year than last
CLEVELAND - Midwest health care startups reported a record-breaking $1 billion in total investments for 104 companies through the third quarter of 2007, according to the BioEnterprise Midwest Health Care Venture Investment Report. The previous full-year record for Midwest health care companies was $783 million in 2006. Ohio and Minnesota led all Midwestern states in
LANSING - The 2007-08 Michigan budget completed in the early hours of Wednesday "took a big bite" out of the state's structural deficit problems, Gov. Jennifer Granholm told reporters at an afternoon press conference. She said the agreement, which sliced her original recommendations by some $433 million, allows the state to move forward on other
LANSING - The Michigan Senate has introduced three new bills that would seek to curtail spyware, the malicious code that tracks everything from buying patterns, to keystroke entries - almost always without the approval of Internet users. Brendan Ringlever of BL Government Affair's office in Lansing discusses all three bills in this special edition of
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corp. has rolled out three new web sites to attract more tourists to the state, more technology companies to the state, and more visibility for the MEDC. MEDC President Jim Epolito discusses what's behind all this Internet activity in this News Maker Interview. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
LANSING - James Greenwood, president and CEO of Bio, the national biotechnology trade group, says Michigan's traditional strengths - manufacturing and agriculture - could stand the state well in its efforts to develop more biotechnology companies. Greenwood was a keynote speaker in October at MichBio, the state's life sciences trade association expo at the Lansing