SOUTHFIELD - Two Warner Norcross & Judd LLP partners have been named co-chair of firm committees. Michael G. Brady will serve as co-chair of the firm?s Automotive Industry Group, which provides legal counsel to auto suppliers on contracting, employment matters, antitrust, product liability, recalls, intellectual property, environmental law and other issues. Brady concentrates his practice
STERLING HEIGHTS - The Macomb-OU INCubator was recently awarded Business Accelerator Funds to provide accelerator services to client companies Nostrum Energy LLC and Omni One LLC in the amounts of $50,000 and $36,635, respectively. With the addition of these latest awards, the Macomb-OU INCubator has now surpassed all other business accelerators in garnering the most
LANSING - A sales tax increase to finance road construction and improvements would "put a dagger in the state's economic recovery," a letter from the Michigan Retailers Association to Governor Rick Snyder and the Legislature says. The letter, dated Wednesday and signed by James Hallan, CEO of the retailers association, said increasing the sales tax
LANSING - The conference report adopted for the Michigan higher education budget includes a 5.9 percent increase for universities and removes language that would have docked Michigan State University $500,000 for its role in a course regarding so-called "prohibited instruction activity" on unions. Overall, the items of difference amount to about $85.9 million gross (about
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder and Republican legislative leaders came to agreement Thursday on a framework to finalize the 2014-15 fiscal year budget that assures a hefty General Fund commitment to roads and funding increases throughout most of the government. Besides an overall agreement, House-Senate conference committees approved budgets for 11 of the 17 departments
ANN ARBOR - The Michigan Venture Capital Association released their 2013 research report this week, which shows that $120 million was invested in 40 companies in Michigan, the highest number of deals since the MVCA began tracking this information, an increase of 111 percent over the last five years. Other highlights from this report show
LANSING ? The Small Business Association of Michigan has named Kevin Cuncannan as the organization?s Director, Small Business Services. Kevin was previously Team Leader ? COBRA Administration. In addition, SBAM has hired Shannon North and Brittany Smith as COBRA Coordinators.
DETROIT - After a strong bounce-back from the weather-induced winter lull, it looks like job growth moderated in May, Comerica Bank said in its monthly economic report. Last month, we saw a very strong 288,000 net job gain in the official Bureau of Labor Statistics report for April. Today, we see a more moderate gain
LANSING ? Michigan Senate Democrats and Republicans are clashing on whether a proposal to increase Michigan's sales tax is the right solution to build funding for roads, and Democrats won't back down on having a solution that includes some consideration for those with lower incomes that would be disproportionately affected by a tax increase. In
KALAMAZOO - Armune BioScience has appointed David Esposito as Chief Operating Officer. In the newly created role, Esposito will be responsible for commercial strategy for Apifiny, an innovative prostate cancer diagnostic assay, and expansion of the company?s sales and marketing efforts. Armune BioScience is a medical diagnostics company formed to develop and commercialize unique proprietary