LANSING - After Governor Rick Snyder signed HB 4465 , current high school seniors suddenly were required to have two credits of foreign language rather than one. But on Wednesday, the House Education Committee reported a bill that would fix the inadvertent change. Rep. Lisa Posthumus Lyons (R-Alto), sponsor of HB 5793 and chair of
DETROIT - Over the years, Detroit has held many titles and nicknames, many of them negative - which is why, as the city works to reinvent itself, one local woman is on a mission to crown it the "Little Free Library capital of the world." Kim Kozlowski wants to raise enough money over the next
DETROIT - At first glance, you might think this story is about a candle. The Jam Jar looks like it could be one, with the colorful filling inside of a classic Mason Jar. But the Jam Jar is a radio, decorative and useful for the home. Mason Jars are kind of hip right now. You
LANSING - Urban farms with livestock cannot be verified as following proper environmental practices under standards approved, with some reservations, Wednesday by the Commission of Agriculture and Rural Development. The new Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance Program standards follow recent generally accepted agriculture management practices that say category 4 farms, those in high population residential areas,
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LANSING - Republican Governor Rick Snyder has a small, but statistically insignificant, lead over Democratic challenger Mark Schauer, and Democratic U.S. Rep. Gary Peters leads Republican Terri Land in the U.S. Senate race, according to a new poll. Snyder received 43 percent to 40 percent for Schauer in the telephone interview survey of 600 likely
DETROIT - Every once in a while we meet an inspiring leader in the Detroit area who?s making an impact in entrepreneurship that can?t be ignored. Devita Davidson is one of those Detroiters. We?re thrilled to learn that when Oprah was in town this past weekend for her motivational ?The Life You Want Weekend? event
TROY - Detroit Labs was named Technology Company of the Year at the 14th annual Automation Alley Gala last Friday at the MotorCity Casino Hotel in Detroit. Entrepreneur of the Year (sponsored by Foster Swift Collins & Smith) was David Wang and Ronny Chiang of BEET Analytics Technology. This year?s Awards Gala featured a special
LANSING - On Wednesday, Yvonne Walker Keshick, an Odawa quill worker from Petoskey, will receive the nation?s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts when she is honored as a 2014 National Heritage Fellow from the National Endowment for the Arts. The award will be presented to Keshick at the Library of Congress? Thomas
CUPERTINO - Apple Inc. said it received more than four million orders of its two new iPhone 6 models in the first 24 hours on Sept. 12, surpassing the previous record first-day pre-orders set in 2012 when Apple released the iPhone 5. The surge in interest has marketers as well as consumers intrigued. Jon Elvekrog,