LANSING - Communities currently hosting wind farms asked the Michigan House Tax Policy Committee to support legislation that would provide them more certainty of the revenue they will see from the facilities, but many said they would be happy with direction to the Tax Commission to change its depreciation tables back. The committee took testimony
DETROIT - It is "fundamentally wrong" that the state pays substantially more to house prisoners than it does to educate college students, executives with Business Leaders for Michigan said Wednesday, and said the state is more to blame for higher tuition costs because of the cuts it has made to higher education funding. It is
LANSING - More than 140 corn growers, agricultural industry leaders, legislators and aides gathered to discuss corn-related issues, legislation and the future of the industry at the 2012 Michigan Corn Growers Association Annual Meeting. At the meeting, corn growers heard presentations from the Governor?s office, received reports from state House and Senate leadership, participated in
YPSILANTI - Integrated Sensing Systems and the University of Michigan announced that they have received a $1.5 million National Institute of Health grant to develop a wireless, implantable pressure sensor for congenital heart disease. ?This pressure sensing implant has the potential to greatly improve the care we provide to our most complex patients and will
WASHINGTON DC - Whether the bailout of General Motors and Chrysler Corporation was proper was back in the headlights of Michigan politics as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney charged the bailout was an example of "crony capitalism," but top Democrats, including former Governor Jennifer Granholm, said Romney was stabbing the state in the back. All
ANN ARBOR - Michigan Business Incubator Association will be announcing the winners of its Incubator Awards at the MBIA Annual Conference in Grand Rapids on April 18. The awards will recognize one business incubation program and one client company that have made important industry contributions in Michigan through their products, services and programs. Winners of
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder proposed a major overhaul of the capital outlay process and recommended a 3-percent increase to public universities operations. Snyder said the 18 projects in the pipeline, split between universities and community colleges, are recommended to still go ahead, at a cost of $613 million. He said his proposed new system
LANSING - A bill aimed at stopping elected officials from casting votes over the phone or an Internet video service is headed to the House floor after being reported from the House Oversight, Reform and Ethics Committee on Tuesday. HB 5335 , sponsored by Rep. Richard LeBlanc (D-Westland), aims to clarify the Open Meetings Act
WASHINGTON DC - Anonymous had a busy weekend. The loose-knit hacking collective, which last week scored a coup against the FBI, claimed to have taken down the CIA's Web site on Friday, in what appeared to be a distributed denial of service attack (one of the group's specialties, such relatively unsophisticated attacks paralyze Web servers
LANSING - Recent changes to the state's tax system will reduce the overall tax burden compared to other states, but will still leave the state slightly more heavily reliant on property taxes and will shift the income tax burden toward individuals, the Citizens Research Council said in a report released Monday. The report, 2009 Tax