LANSING - School aid payments went out Tuesday as scheduled, but Gov. Jennifer Granholm cut $54 million and said more cuts, or more revenues, will be needed to bring the budget into balance. Granholm urged quick legislative action to cure the remaining shortfall in the budget, which she said could reach $264 million. "Our schools
DETROIT - Rick Inatome, a long-time Michigan serial entrepreneur who founded one of the first computer sales start ups in the state, has spent all of his adult life starting and running businesses. His advice for both entrepreneurs and managers alike is this - empower and inspire innovation to get top results. To listen, click
DETROIT ? Noah Alper, who founded Noah's Bagels, later purchased by Einstein Brothers Bagels for $100 Million, talks in this special interview from the E2Detroit Entrepreneurs summit about how using the golden rule in business reaps golden results. To listen, click on MITechNews.JenesysGroup.Com a>>
DETROIT - Tom Murphy, the former mayor of Pittsburgh, said there are a lot of parallels between the Steel city and Detroit, both from where they came from and where they are headed - towards the new normal. To listen, click on MITechNews.JenesysGroup.Com a>>
GRAND RAPIDS - Technology consulting firm C/D/H has been selected for membership in Microsoft's Worldwide Security Partner Advisory Council, the company announced Tuesday. The Security PAC focuses on a range of security issues facing Microsoft customers and partners around the world. Microsoft?s PAC program is an invitation-only membership organization that covers computing issues such as
LANSING - A plurality of state voters asked who is most to blame for the state failing to meet the October 1 deadline to enact the 2009-10 budget said: everyone - Gov. Jennifer Granholm, majority Republicans in the Senate and majority Democrats in the House. If the respondents were apt to single out one of
DETROIT - The journalism program at Wayne State has named former Detroit Free Press reporter Bill McGraw the 2009 Journalist of the Year. McGraw recently joined Compuware Corp. as director of media relations. Canadian reporter Laura Lowe, a videographer at CTV in Ottawa, Ontario, was named the program's Alumna of the Year. She began her
BATTLE CREEK - The road to starting your own business can have a lot of twists and turns. For Michael Miller, owner of M2 Properties LLC, this is especially true. But he was helped by the Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center. From working in a large corporate environment to owning his own restaurant,
ANN ARBOR - The public is invited to submit questions that will be included in a two-part tweet chat about H1N1/Swine flu from 10 am to noon Oct. 22 on Twitter. Sandro Cinti, M.D., an infectious disease expert at the University of Michigan Health System and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, will answer questions during
DETROIT - Michigan will host more than 1,200 researchers, scientists, government officials and life science company representatives next October as the sixth annual World Stem Cell Summit comes to Detroit. The announcement was made Thursday by Gov. Jennifer Granholm at a press conference at the Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center. The conference will be held at