DETROIT - A National Labor Relations Board ruling that scholarship football players at Northwestern University are ?employees? who may unionize could transform college sports and create an entirely new landscape of labor and funding challenges for school administrators. NLRB Regional Director Peter Sung Ohr said the 85 Northwestern football players who receive grant-in-aid scholarships met
DETROIT - Attorneys and clients seeking the appointment of a receiver often face the dilemma of uncertainty. The process can be riddled with questions: Will the court appoint the requested receiver? If not, will the court appoint a receiver with knowledge of, let alone specialization in, the subject matter of the receivership? Will the court
SOUTHFIELD - The Engineering Society of Detroit has named Matt Roush, former technology editor of WWJ Newsradio 950, as its new Director of Communications and Public Relations. Roush, 57, is a veteran science and technology journalist who has worked in Michigan his entire 35-year career. At ESD, Roush will support the organization?s mission to provide
LANSING ? Michigan House Republicans unveiled Thursday a plan to appropriate at least $450 million in 2015 on roads, but acknowledged that some of the provisions leave the General Fund "tight," and that has some people concerned. House Speaker Jase Bolger (R-Marshall) proposed taking the portion of the sales tax that now goes to the
LANSING - If Michigan wants to stop its slide in educational performance, it needs to be sure schools are using research-based education programs and it needs to provide the funds to fully implement those programs, the Education Trust-Midwest said in a report released Thursday. The report, Stalled to Soaring: Michigan's Path to Educational Recovery, put
LANSING - The Department of Community Health announced Thursday that a flash drive containing health information on 2,595 clients of the Long Term Care Ombudsman's Office had been stolen, potentially compromising the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of some of those people. The drive and a laptop were stolen from an employee of the
SEATTLE - The Fire TV streaming box was announced at Amazon's press event in New York this morning, focusing on improving search, performance, and gaming over competitors. The new box is already available for purchase from Amazon for $99, as well as the new gaming controller accessory, the Fire Game Controller, for $39. The Fire
GRAND RAPIDS - The Geek Group has received a donation from Autodesk Inc. of more than $200,000 in 3D design software that will let members of the group create new products, works of art, as well as educate themselves on this Computer-Aided-Design software. Autodesk Inc. is a world leader in 3D design software for entertainment,
WASHINGTON DC - A new report based on the trove of NSA documents leaked to journalists last year by Edward Snowden says the agency's UK counterpart, the GCHQ, spied on German Internet firms, and it provides more information on the NSA's efforts to monitor German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The report, published in German magazine Der
SAN FRANCISCO - Alex Stamos, Yahoo?s new chief information security officer, announced several new implementations of encryption in Yahoo products fixing a glaring hole in the Web giant?s user security: Yahoo Messenger. "Preventing surveillance of millions of people at a time is totally within our ability," Stamos told a small gathering of reporters at Yahoo's