GRAND RAPIDS - In the strongest terms he has used yet, Governor Rick Snyder called a Democratic Governors Association ad attacking him for cutting school funds "hogwash" and a "lie" in comments made at a forum in Grand Rapids, the Kalamazoo Gazette Editorial Board and then at the first town hall of his campaign. For
LANSING - Gongwer News Service's 2014 Michigan Elections app, the groundbreaking new tool that debuted earlier this year with essential information and analysis on this year's state and federal elections, is now available for half the original price. Available for iOS and Android for $4.99, the app is the perfect tool for obtaining on-the-go, easy-to-navigate
SOUTHFIELD ? Informal networking and a panel discussion were the format last week at the monthly meeting of the Detroit Chapter of the Association for Women in Communication that focused on the changing media landscape wrought by new digital tools ushered in by the Internet age. Women and men with a wide spectrum of journalistic
LANSING - An additional four health insurance companies will offer coverage for Michigan residents in the federal marketplace in 2015, figures from the federal Department of Health and Human Services showed, bringing to 16 the number of companies that residents will be able to shop for insurance. Michigan is one of seven stats in the
LANSING - Michigan's overall economic competitiveness has improved at an "impressive rate," a study released Wednesday by the Michigan Chamber of Commerce showed, with the state jumping nine spots to be the 30th most competitive state in the union. The state saw improvements in all the factors the study measured, showing the biggest improvement in
AUBURN HILLS - Employees of Faurecia North America next week will launch its fifth annual FUELS community food drive, a program that has provided more than 2.4 million meals since 2010 for hundreds of thousands of hungry residents across Canada, Mexico and the U.S. More than 20,000 Faurecia employees from the company?s 47 locations will
SAN FRANCISCO - We're one step closer to creating the Ansible communicator in "Ender's Game," the warp drive envisioned by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre and a "Star Trek"-style Transporter. Or we can at least keep thinking that while scientists do the hard, incremental physics required to keep us dreaming of those kinds of future advancements.
ANN ARBOR - The last month has been extremely busy as we put the final planning touches to the 2014 MichBio Expo & Conference and prepared the next issue of BioMatters? more on that later. In late August I visited Thermo Fisher Immunodiagnostics (i.e., Phadia U.S.) in Portage and met with the Medical Director, Rob
DETROIT - American cities are dramatically changing and face many challenges. How can they address urban sustainability and the complexities of connected technology? Those questions will ne addressed from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, Toyota leaders will join 350 of the world?s greatest thinkers at the Meeting of the Minds 2014 summit to explore this
FLINT - Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder?s reaction to seeing the FIRST Robotics Community Center at Kettering University could be summed up in a few words -- ?To put it simply, this is awesome,? Snyder said. Snyder was among several dignitaries, including Don Bossi, president of FIRST Robotics, Flint Mayor Dayne Walling and Jennifer Liversedge of