LANSING - In an order issued Tuesday, the Michigan Public Service Commission has required Consumers Energy to use money from its 2007 sale of the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant to off-set residential rate hikes. The rate increases take effect Thursday. The PSC said without using $36 million from the decommissioning fund from Palisades, residential consumers
LANSING - Joe the Plumber Wurzelbacher, who first hit the public eye when he openly discussed small business tax policy with presidential candidate Barack Obama during last fall's election, will be the featured speaker at SBAM's 40th annual meeting and networking luncheon in East Lansing on June 18. Wurzelbacher will share his story of how
LANSING - In advance of the Revenue Estimating Conference set for later this week, where the news is expected to be bleak, an interview released on Tuesday with an economist from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy painted a picture just as grim that included unemployment projections as high as 20 percent by the end
LANSING - Another report on Tuesday, this one from engineers, assessed the substandard condition of Michigan's roads, transit, water, the electric grid and other infrastructure systems, but the launch of a specific plan to raise the needed funds for transportation purposes is not expected until Thursday when legislation is to be introduced that doubles vehicle
AUBURN HILLS - Mark Symonds, CEO of Plex Systems, provides a glimpse of what Plex users can learn if they attend the Plex User Conference this summer in Cleveland. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
DETROIT - Quick To Lean, developed by a TechTown entrepreneur, is technology aimed at urban schools help them cut costs and be more responsive to students educational needs The first urban school to ge this new technology is the Detroit Public Schools. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
LANSING - Legislation that would guarantee health care access to all Michigan residents by preventing insurers from cherry-picking consumers and rejecting those with pre-existing health conditions was announced Monday by House Democrats. Senate Republicans, who have held task force meetings on the issue of health care, are scheduled to announce their own initiative on Thursday.
MIDLAND - Examining and protecting your rights on creations of the mind like inventions, ideas, symbols, and more is what will be discussed at May 28 as part of the next MidMichigan Innovators Speaker Series. Sponsored by Saginaw Valley State University and its federal WIRED program, Intellectual Property Strategy Overview, a free program, will be
ROYAL OAK - Information Technology networking organization DetroitNET.org is presenting their first Pink Slip Party May 21st at the BlackFinn Saloon in Royal Oak. The invitation is being extended solely to out of work Information Technology employees in the Metro Detroit area. They will have the ability to network with roughly a dozen of the
LANSING - Michigan has 109,067 jobs tied to the green economy, and that number is growing, state and federal officials said on the release of a study by the Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth. Based on surveys of 358 of those green economy companies, there was 7.7 percent employment growth in the sector