LANSING - Election Day is getting closer, but Democratic gubernatorial candidate Virg Bernero still can't seem to dent Republican Rick Snyder's huge lead in the polls. A couple weeks ago, a Bernero campaign internal poll purportedly showed the candidate within 12 points, cutting Snyder's lead in half. However, leaked internal polling should be taken with
ANN ARBOR ? Becton, Dickinson and Co., which purchased HandyLab last year for $275 million, will close the Ann Arbor company's office and consolidate the manufacture of HandyLab's rapid detection infection device in Maryland. The fate of the company's 50 Michigan employees remains unclear, but none will remain in Michigan, a company spokesperson said. The
LANSING ? Michigan took some $100 million more into its general fund coffers last fiscal year than expected, and Gov, Jennifer Granholm said Monday she would like to see at least some of that money go to tourism advertising. Granholm announced Monday that the general fund and the School Aid Fund each took in some
LANSING - Michigan could see $792 million more in small business loans as a result of $79.2 million in federal funds awarded to the state. The funds, officially announced Friday, are from a federal program based on a state manufacturing loan assistance program. The grant allows the state to provide qualifying businesses with collateral assistance
LANSING - A heavy focus on promoting alternative energy development and companies has meant Michigan has placed third among all other states in terms of alternative energy corporate locations, a report from Business Facilities Magazine said. "Michigan is far too busy reinventing itself as a hub for alternative energy manufacturing to wallow in despair over
MIDLAND ? Northwood University's Richard DeVos Graduate School of Management is coming to Grand Rapids with classes starting January 2011. The DeVos Evening MBA program will be sharing space with Northwood's Adult Degree Program which has been in Grand Rapids for several years. "I am pleased to announce that we have responded to the many
DETROIT - Asterand plc, a leading provider of human tissue and human tissue-based services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies engaged in drug discovery research, has been awarded a five-year, $24.3 million contract with the National Cancer Institute to supply clinically annotated human biospecimens for The Cancer Genome Atlas project, which attempts to understand the molecular
ANN ARBOR ? Bank of Ann Arbor's Technology Banking Group will provide working capital to the best and brightest start ups nurtured at Wayne State University's TechTown. "Detroit's TechTown is one of the nation's leading business incubators and an important catalyst for Detroit's new economy," said Michael Cole, Group President of Bank of Ann Arbor's
DETROIT - Do you protect your precious IP without bankrupting your fledgling enterprise? On Oct. 12, at the TiE Detroit monthly meeting you'll learn key Strategic Intellectual Property Management Best Practices, including how to navigate through the dreaded NDA with customers and partners. Before allocating a significant portion of your product or business development budget
MARQUETTE ? Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder said the state's tourism Pure Michigan marketing campaign would be fully funded under his Value for Money budgeting proposal, which would prioritize state spending to those programs that return value to taxpayers and would eliminate the annual status-quo budgeting process that often times lacks rhyme or reason. Snyder