LANSING ? Michigan Republicans have won a smashing, historic victory in the Senate Tuesday night with Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop declaring his party had won 26 seats for a two-thirds supermajority. Patrick Colbeck has won a huge victory in the 7th District for the GOP to keep a seat and Rep. Dave Hildenbrand of
DETROIT - Michigan Governor-elect Rick Snyder Wednesday announced that former Michigan economic development director and current Business Leaders for Michigan President and CEO Doug Rothwell will chair his transition team and help the Governor-elect and his team get off to a fast start to reinvent Michigan. Former budget director and state treasurer Mark Murray, currently
LANSING - In accepting victory, Governor-elect Rick Snyder on Tuesday called for the state to end the Michigan Business Tax, but also to protect its natural resources and rebuild its central cities, especially Detroit. Could that put him into some conflict with a Republican Legislature elected by voters "taking a baseball bat to the establishment?"
DETROIT - The Mobile Marketing Review, a new podcast series dedicated to educating the mobile industry and providing expert advice on execution, effectiveness and mobile marketing best practices, has gone live. Episodes will examine real-life mobile marketing and advertising campaigns submitted by brands, agencies and marketers worldwide, and offer a no-holds-barred analysis of how well
TROY - Join a free Walsh College webinar on Thursday, Nov. 18, to get an overview of the Walsh Health Services Administration specialization, designed for professionals who work in the health services field or aspire to do so. Courses include health economics; health administration finance; health care policy, law and ethical issues; and quality assurance
PORTAGE ? Manatron, which provides integrated property tax and records management software for state and local governments, announced Tuesday that the Palm Beach County, Florida Tax Collector Offices are now live on the Manatron Government Revenue Management Tax Collection system and e-Government web portal. The new, web-based Manatron GRM installation replaces the office?s decades-old legacy
LIVONIA - TRW Automotive Holdings announced that its self-adaptive seat belt load limiting technology, capable of automatically adapting to different body sizes of passengers, has been shortlisted as an Automotive News PACE Award finalist. The winners will be announced on April 11, 2011. The Automotive News PACE Awards honor superior innovation, technological advancement and business
ANN ARBOR - Mass Times has recently selected Online Tech as their managed data center partner. The Mass Times ministry, based in Boston, manages MassTimes.Org a multi-language website that provides locations and worship times for over 110,000 churches worldwide. Catholics that are outside of their diocesan boundaries are able to search for mass times and
DETROIT ? There's another group in metro Detroit representing women who work in tech-related industries ? Girls In Tech Detroit. The national group has set up a Southeast Michigan chapter that will give women in the technology space more social networking among their peers. GIT Detroit focuses on collaboration, promotion, growth and success of women
GRAND RAPIDS ? Michigan Film Reel will host Tom Norton, a seasoned expert in the world of film and TV production, Sunday Nov. 7 at 6 pm on the third floor of McFadden's Restaurant and Saloon. Norton is an award winning writer and director in filming documentaries and commercials. He is currently the director at