MIDLAND - How do you find business startup opportunities that match your talent? Join MidlandTomorrow on June 26 for the second in its series called Linking Talent and Opportunities. This four-hour forum focuses on helping local entrepreneurs link their talent to available opportunities in the area. Speakers from Michigan State University, the University of Michigan,
WASHINGTON DC - As advertising has slumped amid the recession, online ad networks have found themselves in a hard place. Now they may be pushed up against a regulatory rock. On Thursday, House of Representatives subcommittees on communication and consumer protection plan to hold a joint hearing to discuss online advertising and privacy. The lawmakers
BLOOMFIELD HILLS - Butzel Long attorneys will host an Employee Free Choice Act Briefing from 8:30 a.m. to Noon on June 26 at Butzel Long's Bloomfield Hills office located at Stoneridge West, 41000 Woodward Avenue. The program is designed for senior managers, senior human resource executives, and in-house counsel. The half-day seminar is entitled, �??Employee
LANSING - Members of the Legislative Commission on Government Efficiency began looking at some preliminary recommendations it would make to the Legislature - some of which the Legislature has started looking at on its own, such as eliminating the Michigan Promise Grant - and considering some of the nuances of how it presents those recommendations.
LANSING - Legislation to fill in the gaps left with the passage of a constitutional proposal to permit embryonic stem cell research, which would include regulations and penalties for violations of confidentiality and other issues, Sen. Tom George (R-Kalamazoo) announced Thursday. George was one of the more public opponents of the embryonic stem cell issue,
LANSING - The Michigan House had its say on the status of transferring Cobo Center to a regional authority on Thursday by passing two bills that would allow for a lease agreement between Detroit and the authority. As was the original legislative deal, which died after the Detroit City Council rejected it, hotel-motel and liquor
LANSING - While Michigan relies on property and business taxes to a greater degree than other states, it ranks 30th overall among all states in terms of actual dollar per capita tax burden, a study by the Senate Fiscal Agency shows. However, when considering the percentage against personal income that state and local taxes represent,
LANSING - A two-bill package changing up how the Michigan Strategic Fund could invest 21st Century Jobs Fund dollars began its trip in the Legislature Wednesday via a hearing before the House New Economic and Quality of Life Committee. The panel considered, but did not vote on, HB 5099 and HB 5100, which had just
GRAND RAPIDS - In response to the record unemployment rates in Michigan, the Michigan Small Business and Technology Development Center and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation are announcing the statewide expansion of a program offering training to displaced workers interested in starting a new business or retooling an existing business that is struggling in the
DETROIT - At the National Summit in Detroit yesterday, Bill Ford, Jr. called for more transparency in how the U.S. government is involved in running General Motors and Chrysler. The Detroit News quoted Bill Ford as saying, "There are issues that we just don�??t have answers to yet in terms of government ownership in our