GRAND RAPIDS - Rep. Brian Calley has the smarts, hustle, personality and unselfishness needed in a lieutenant governor, and Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder said Wednesday that's why he chose him as his running mate. The new Snyder/Calley ticket, expected to be formally certified Saturday once the state Republican convention officially nominates Calley, started its
LANSING - Michigan companies in Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Holland, Kalamazoo and Saline have been selected to receive a total of $530,000 in the latest round of funding under the state's Company Formation and Growth Fund, an initiative aimed at retaining Pfizer assets and talent for advancing life sciences technologies in Michigan. "Today's action is
LANSING - A new coalition of businesses announced on Tuesday it was starting a new effort to expand electric utility choice in the state. Currently the state has 10 percent of its electric utility capacity open for utility choice which was set by a 2008 law that critics said subjected the state to monopoly control
LANSING - The Senate's adjournment Tuesday until September 7 assured yet another budget would go into the last days of the fiscal year and now puts the government at risk of a third shutdown in four years unless Governor Jennifer Granholm and the Legislature can strike a deal before midnight October 1. There had been
DETROIT - Beginning this fall, undergraduate students at Wayne State University have the opportunity to study ventures engineering thanks to the approval August 4 by the WSU Board of Governors of a certificate in Engineering Entrepreneurship. The new program takes advantage of three course offerings in the WSU School of Business Administration as well as
ANN ARBOR - Merit Network announced Tuesday the award of federal stimulus funding to construct 1,270 miles of fiber-optic infrastructure in the Northern Lower and Upper Peninsulas of Michigan. The fiber, which enables access to high-performance broadband, will benefit rural and underserved communities across 29 Michigan counties, helping students with their school work and businesses
NEW HUDSON ? Jasper Alternate Fuels, a division of Jasper Engines & Transmissions, has signed an agreement with Icom North America to install and service Icom's patented JTG propane liquid-injection fuel system on commercial fleet vehicles in North America. Based in Jasper, Ind., Jasper Alternate Fuels expects to sell more than 5,000 Icom JTG systems
ANN ARBOR - Osiris Innovations Group, an e-business solutions provider and expert in supply chain management and supplier enablement, has partnered with Online Tech to exclusively host their Software as a Service offerings. OIG had several requirements since they only offer SaaS e-procurement solutions. First, OIG had to ensure their SaaS solutions are reliable and
DETROIT - Who doesn't want a captive audience? And you know what? You'll get one if you join the Michigan International Chamber of Commerce for its second annual dinner networking cruise. Talk business, entertain your clients, bring a prospect or two around to show them how fun you are outside of work too or reward
OAKLAND COUNTY ? A series of business development classes, featuring the nationally acclaimed FastTrac curriculum will be hosted by the Oakland County Business Center this August and September. FastTrac Listening to your Business, NewVenture and Growth Venture Forward will be presented by the Michigan Small Business & Technology Center. The day-to-day responsibilities of running your