KALAMAZOO - Howard Dean, a onetime front-running presidential candidate who some credit with sowing the grassroots political seeds that sprouted into the 2008 election of Barack Obama, will keynote the KVCC Foundation's fifth annual Opportunities for Education fund-raiser May 20. The banquet, designed to raise scholarship dollars and underwritten by National City Bank, will begin
DETROIT - Reuters reports that GM bondholders have presented the company with a plan to restructure its debt. And they say this is the best deal GM can hope for. Meanwhile, Steven Rattner, with the Presidential Task Force, is quoted by the Detroit Free Press as saying that bondholders are being "quite difficult" and that
LANSING - Who Michigan voters want to pick for governor in 19 months appears to be pretty open, but a new poll out Friday shows Republican primary voters favor Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, while Democratic primary voters like Lt. Governor John Cherry. The poll, conducted by Marketing Research Group for Inside Michigan Politics,
LANSING - Already this year there have been a number of calls for Michigan to revamp its overall tax system, but major proposals to change the tax system are thus far lacking. There is one significant proposal, though, that has started working its way through legislators and interest groups: scrap the already hated Michigan Business
TROY - Automation Alley on Monday announced that it has launched its new job board, which includes the ability for job seekers to submit an online application and resume directly to the employer. "Our previous job board was outdated and it was time to implement an improved system," said Jennifer Bowden, business services liaison at
NEW YORK - Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, a new website called IrishCentral was launched, which provides news, info and a sense of community for people of Irish heritage around the world. It has received an undisclosed amount of funding from an interesting group of investors, including Don Keough, chairman of Allen &
LANSING - A 12-bill package dubbed by proponents as the "Hire Michigan First" plan because it targets economic development incentives to businesses hiring Michigan residents was passed by a mostly bipartisan House on Thursday. However, main objections to the bills by Republicans remained, namely that the bills don't require state construction done by unionized workers
LANSING - With the recent changes in electric regulation that included requirements for renewable power and energy efficiency and with Gov. Jennifer Granholm's recent directive that all options be explored before issuing permits for new coal-fired generation, Michigan is poised to attract renewable power production facilities that will export that equipment at least regionally, Energy,
TROY - Automation Alley announced Friday that the technology networking group has been awarded more than $2 million in federal funds - a portion of which will be used to study how to expand Automation Alley headquarters by 4000 square feet. Automation Alley also received funds to develop more handicapped-friendly buses with Altair Engineering and
FLINT - Deb McKerracher, a marketing executive with TGI Direct in Flint, is the March ConnecTech Member of the Month. TGI is a marketing support services company that specialize in developing web-based solutions including variable data imaging, print on demand, fulfillment (print or product), email marketing, and web hosting. In addition, TGI Direct offers full