LANSING - The Michigan Public Service Commission Monday became the first state energy agency in the nation to make energy efficiency improvements to its new office location using Property Assessed Clean Energy financing. ?Michigan state government is committed to eliminating energy waste, and is able to use a variety of tools to achieve that goal,?
LANSING - Though the exact costs are still unclear, Michigan growers and processors, and some non-agricultural industries, sending their products to Canada will face some additional costs in the coming year, Agriculture and Rural Development Director Jamie Clover Adams told the Commission of Agriculture and Rural Development at its meeting Wednesday. Canada is planning retaliatory
LANSING - Legislation that would make permanent the Michigan film incentive program, simplify the incentives and make taxable some of the post-release income generated by the productions cleared the House Commerce Committee on Wednesday. The committee made no major changes to the legislation, SB 1103 , a top priority of Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville
ROCHESTER - Use of social media can have legal consequences, both personally and professionally. Is your brand being ?hijacked? on social media? Can an employee be fired because of a social media post? What does your favorite social media platform do with your personal information? Could social media be used as an alibi? Kathy Ossian
DEARBORN - The ninth annual Michigan Council for Women in Technology annual black-tie Signature Gala November 8 raised more than $300,000 and also inaugurated a new president for the MCWT. The annual event was hosted by Ford Motor Company to raise funds for the MCWT Foundation serving women in technology through all stages of education
LANSING - Long-stymied efforts to increase funding for Michigan's battered roads won a momentous victory Thursday in the Senate with the passage of legislation that hopes to eventually raise more than $1 billion through doubling the gasoline tax. It took several attempts on an updated version of the bill it last attempted to pass in
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation and Detroit-based Community Push Wednesday announced the launch of a new crowdfunding campaign through Michigan crowdfunding platform Patronicity as part of the MEDC Public Spaces Community Places initiative. The campaign will support phase two of The Wig, a community-led project to transform the vacant and blighted Wigle Recreation
SOUTHFIELD - Verizon Wireless has declared Nov. 26 Connection Day and is offering mobile users the chance to connect with friends, music, books, news, and apps on one of the busiest travel days of the year, the day before Thanksgiving. On Nov. 26, all consumers regardless of wireless carrier can receive everything from movies to
SOUTHFIELD - With the help of a sponsorship from Cadillac, three high school students from Canton and Northville will leave on Nov. 19 to represent the United States in the World Robot Olympiad to be held at the Olympic Village in Sochi, Russia Nov. 21-23. This is the first time the United States is participating
ANN ARBOR - ONL Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapies for preserving sight in a range of retinal diseases, Wednesday announced it has been awarded a $1.37 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract from the National Eye Institute to advance development of ONL101, the company?s lead therapeutic candidate. ONL101 is a first-in-class