DETROIT - Mike Finney says his new position in Gov. Rick Snyder?s office as senior adviser for economic growth is the best possible outcome for his search for what to do after stepping down as president and CEO of the Michigan Economic Development Corp. In a story in Crain?s Detroit, Finney said he had decided
LANSING - Republican National Committeewoman Ronna Romney McDaniel wasted no time in declaring her bid to succeed departing Party Chair Bobby Schostak, and now the question is who in the party has the cachet and support to defeat McDaniel. That McDaniel cuts so formidable a profile is a credit both to the power of her
LANSING ? The Michigan Strategic Fund has approved $12.5 million in Community Development Block Grant funds for the City of Coldwater that will support the construction of a $255.7 million Clemens Food Group pork processing facility, the biggest of the eight projects funded Tuesday that will generate more than $463 million in new capital investment
DETROIT - Returning to its roots as a mainframe software provider, Compuware has spun off is application performance management software unit. Users of mainframe optimization software and APM software could each benefit from the split. The companies acting separately should be better able to serve constituents than a monolithic single entity could, say the respective
ANN ARBOR - Three University of Michigan researchers have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. Election to NAI Fellow status is a professional distinction given to academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life,
SOUTHFIELD - The online graduate school guide Best Master?s Programs has ranked Lawrence Technological University 18th in the top 50 nationwide for online master?s degrees in engineering. The rankings, which can be viewed at www.bestmastersprograms.org, are based on an equal weight of program quality, as measured by U.S. News & World Report, and estimated program
EGHAM, United Kingdom ? As if further evidence was needed to demonstrate the market acceptance of smartphones, worldwide sales to consumers in the third quarter of 2014 grew by 20.3 percent to 301 million units, while sales of more conventional mobile phones were flat, a news survey from Gartner reports. ?Sales of feature phones declined
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LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder and Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville on Monday offered a different assessment from Michigan House Speaker Jase Bolger's continued claims that others in the room discussing a solution to the state's $1.2 billion road funding problem have shown little interest in finding a compromise. The development is the latest in
LANSING - The early major components of Governor Rick Snyder's legislative agenda for 2015 are passing a new energy policy for the state and addressing the persistent troubles of K-12 education in Detroit. Snyder, in an interview with Gongwer News Service, said he has "a pretty good idea" of what he will propose on the