LANSING - Utility customer choice advocates have been relatively quiet since the passage of the restructuring laws that capped that choice, but the debate appears to be rekindling since Consumers Energy announced that it had reached the cap. Consumers notified alternative energy suppliers in its territory and the Public Service Commission on Friday that it
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Growth Authority has two more standard tax credits to offer between now and the end of the year after it reassigned two remaining high-tech credits. The board agreed Tuesday to reassign credits for Compact Power Incorporated and Johnson Controls from standard to high-tech, essentially using up the remaining high-tech and
WASHINGTON - The Obama Administration Tuesday reaffirmed its commitment to ensuring that minority-owned and small businesses, including women- and veteran-owned businesses, have greater access to federal government contracting opportunities. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Small Business Administrator Karen Mills announced a government-wide plan that includes federal agency procurement officials holding or participating in more than
DETROIT - The Detroit Edison Co., trying to meet state renewable energy requirements, is looking for proposals from providers of renewable energy. On Tuesday, Edison issued two requests for proposals. The first RFP seeks potential partners for the development of one or more Michigan-based wind farms that can produce up to 75 megawatts of new
SOUTHFIELD - Data Center Solutions LLC introduces Continuous Data Protection technologies developed by Datacastle, which provides secure, comprehensive, policy-driven PC backup and data privacy software for today's mobile workforce. Details will be provided in a webinar at 2 pm Aug. 27 and in this Security edition of Newsmaker Interview. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
DETROIT - Nicole Christian, the former opinion page editor at the Detroit Free Press, is the new voice of Wayne State University's TechTown. Christian talks about how she wants to bring the TechTown buzz to all of its communications channels in this special TechTown edition of Newsmaker Interview. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems, a robust ERP solution for the manufacturing enterprise, covers everything from the shop floor to the top floor with 360 individual modules in the Plex Online package. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
ANN ARBOR - Mandy and Pandy, developed by an Ann Arbor entrepreneur to teach his child Chinese, has since grown into a line of books, CDs, and soon an animated TV show. To learn more about this innovative Michigan company, listen to this special New Enterprise Forum edition of Newsmaker Interview. To listen, click on
LANSING - Reducing the state's tax credit for filmmakers will crush the budding industry in Michigan, those working in the field said at a Capitol rally Tuesday. Talk continues to swirl that Gov. Jennifer Granholm and lawmakers are looking at curbing the credit, which allows a 40 percent tax credit on productions filmed in the
TROY - In the wake of the recent H1N1 flu pandemic, Walsh College and Oakland County are hosting a free educational Pandemic Preparedness Symposium September 10 at the Troy campus, near the corner of Livernois and Wattles Roads. The Pandemic Preparedness Symposium, sponsored by Patriot Services Corporation, is being held in observance of National Preparedness