GRAND RAPIDS - After seven years of leadership at Van Andel Education Institute, Gordon Van Harn, Ph.D., has announced his retirement, effective Jan. 1, 2009. Van Harn will continue to serve on the VAEI Board of Trustees and the Van Andel Institute Graduate School Board of Directors. Assuming the post of VAEI director is VAI
ANN ARBOR - You have invented a new technology, but how can you start a company to commercialize this technology? BioArbor has assembled an expert panel of three scientists who have successfully started companies and will speak to issues critical in starting companies, building teams, developing technology into products and funding ventures. Speakers: David Humes,
LANSING - The time saving convenience of renewing a license plate tab at a Secretary of State Self-Service Station has expanded to allow Ann Arbor residents to pay parking and traffic tickets, Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land announced Tuesday. Customers of the Washtenaw County PLUS Office at 353 N. Maple Road can use the
LANSING - Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Tuesday announced the creation of an IBM global delivery center for application services for state and local governments, which will be located on the Michigan State University campus in East Lansing. The global delivery center will be the first of its kind in the United.States for IBM. The center
LANSING - Michigan, which has struggled economically for the entire decade, now has global company to share in its misery, economists told the state's Revenue Estimating Conference on Friday, as the world is now entrenched in the worst economic slowdown since the end of World War II. As bad as things have been, especially since
LANSING - Slammed by a now-global economic downturn coming on top of the state's ongoing economic woes, Michigan revenues will be lower than initially forecast for 2008-09 fiscal year and lower still for 2009-10 with general fund revenues for that year coming in under $8 billion, the members of the Revenue Estimating Conference said Friday.
LANSING - Though Michigan Occupational Health and Safety Administration officials argue there is still some time before ergonomics rules would become effective and still a chance they will not happen, business groups argued Friday that a vote to move ahead with the rules Wednesday by the two commissions that launched their creation would guarantee the
LANSING - Provisions in the new Michigan Business Tax that required companies to pay taxes on the amount of sales or other taxes they collected on behalf of the state have now been ended under legislation signed Friday by Governor Jennifer Granholm. The change in the MBT apply retroactively to January 1, 2008. The change
LANSING - Government employees and retirees across the state would have to pay 25 percent of the cost of their health care coverage under a ballot proposal former Rep. Lorence Wenke is working on. As a member of the Legislature last term, Wenke introduced several bills that would have put into place the 25 percent
LANSING - Heavy call volumes from unemployed people have resulted in the state's Unemployment Insurance Agency reassigning staff and adding capacity to its phone server. The agency is also urging people to file their unemployment claims online to avoid long waits on the phone or in person. "January is historically the busiest time of the