LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder?s proposal to close the $330 million current year 2014-15 General Fund budget deficit includes a smattering of cuts totaling $102.9 million, funding the remainder of payments to the state?s community colleges entirely out of the School Aid Fund and realizing savings from the reduction of Medicaid caseloads. One of the
TROY - Billhighway, provider of cloud-based automation solutions for nonprofits, has aded Robert Romanczuk in the role of Implementation Consultant. Billhighway?s implementation team focuses on continuing to improve project execution capabilities and driving additional value for clients. Romanczuk is a program management professional (PMP) with over 15 years of technical experience in a variety of
BLOOMFIELD HILLS - Kaprica Security and Emissions Analytics have named AutoCom Associates as their public relations agency of record in North America. Kaprica develops easy to use and deploy cyber-security software tools to a wide variety of government agencies and private-enterprise clients. Founded in 2011 by a team of cyber security experts, Kaprica is considered
SOUTHFIELD - The entry deadline is Feb. 27 for three of the most prestigious honors granted by The Engineering Society of Detroit. Those include: The annual ESD Construction and Design Awards. Considered among the most prestigious awards for building projects in the industry, the ESD Construction and Design Awards are unique in that they honor
LANSING - The administration of Governor Rick Snyder will seek legislation to correct a potential problem in the road funding plan that as written would lift the sales tax off of gasoline only for motor vehicles, but not for boats, snowmobiles and other non-road purposes like generators and gasoline-powered equipment. As currently constructed, that would
EAST LANSING - The state championship for VEX Robotics will be the largest ever when many of Michigan?s youngest robotic masters challenge each other on Feb. 22 at Michigan State University. Sixty VEX Robotics teams, including those from Battle Creek, Belding, Bloomfield Hills, Detroit, DeWitt, Grandville, Haslett, Pontiac, Traverse City, Utica, and other Michigan cities
DETROIT - The Department of Natural Resources put nearly $12 million into facilities on Belle Isle over the past year, and saw attendance at some of those facilities more than double, officials said in wrapping up the first year of the state overseeing operations on the Detroit city park. The first anniversary also brings the
WASHINGTON D.C. ? Michigan has long been known as an auto center, but in the latest Cyberstates report, Michigan is noted as a technology cluster. Cyberstates 2015 reports Michigan tech industry employed 196,100 people in 2014, ranking as the 12th most tech workers in the nation. Perhaps more importantly, the growing tech workforce earned annual
DETROIT ? In this Internet Advisor podcast, Charlie Hopper, owner of Pasty.net in the Upper Peninsula, discusses FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler declaration that wired and wireless carriers would be classified as ?common carriers? under Title 2; Emily Hay, founder of Haytheresocialmedia describes a new way to get your message out to a select group of
ANN ARBOR ? Mike Brennan, Editor & Publisher of MITechNews.Com, discusses this week?s headlines, including Grand Rapids Sportsman Track, New proposed FCC control of wired and wireless broadband, Chinese hack insurance carrier and steal 80 million records. To listen, Click on InternetAdvisor.Net