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LANSING - Michigan Homeland Security Consortium, an industry trade association of Homeland Security companies in Michigan has become a supporting organization for the American Security Challenge, a non-profit mechanism to nurture and fund emerging security technology firms devoted to our national security. "We invite entrepreneurs and security technology companies in Michigan to submit their executive

DETROIT - Con Vida, Spanish for With Life, searches the Americas - North, Central and South - for art made by natives, primarily low income folks outside the major cities. Then Con Vida packages the art up for exhibit in the United States and on its web site, ConVida.Org - a different wrinkle for the

LANSING - Students would be required to attend high school until they are 18 years old, unless their parent or guardian gave consent for them to drop out, under two bills the Michigan House passed Wednesday on 71-37 votes. Under current law, students are required to attend school until they reach age 16. Proponents of

LANSING - Detroit Mayor Ken Cockrel Jr. followed through Wednesday on his threat to veto the city council's rejection of a deal to expand and repair the Cobo Hall convention under a regional authority, but still to come is an expected legal battle from the council. The Detroit Area Auto Dealers Association has threatened to

DETROIT - Six percent of chief financial officers in the Detroit area expect to add accounting and finance staff during the second quarter of 2009 and 11 percent anticipate reductions in personnel, according to the most recent Robert Half International Financial Hiring Index. The majority of respondents, 82 percent, anticipate no change in hiring. The