DETROIT - Democrats and Republicans alike say they are flabbergasted at the discussions occurring between the United Auto Workers and Moroun family about a deal in which the UAW would back the ballot proposal sought by the Morouns designed to block the proposed new bridge to Canada in exchange for the Morouns supporting the collective
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation Thursday announced a second year of financial assistance to Michigan small and medium businesses for export-related activities through the Pure Michigan export incentive program. ?My recent trip to China reaffirmed that foreign countries offer new markets, distributorships and other business partnerships to Michigan companies. The Pure Michigan export
LANSING - A new forecast published by the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics at the University of Michigan projects continued slow job growth in Michigan through 2014, by which time the state may have recouped just one-third of the jobs it lost during the decade-long recession. The forecast said that after job growth at a
GRAND RAPIDS - Davenport University announced it is developing two new degree programs for its College of Technology - a Master of Science in Technology Management and a Bachelor of Science in Digital Forensics. ?We are excited to be developing these new programs to help Davenport students get where the world is going in the
STAMFORD, Conn. - Worldwide PC shipments totaled 87.5 million units in the third quarter of 2012, a decline of 8.3 percent compared with the third quarter of 2011, according to preliminary results by Gartner. "A continuing slowdown in consumer PC shipments played a big part in the overall PC market decline," said Mikako Kitagawa, principal
WASHINGTON DC - Michigan's tax climate has seen a substantial improvement in 2012, leaping to 7th from 49th in corporate rankings and to 12th from 18th overall, according to the just released Tax Foundation?s 2013 State Business Tax Climate Index. The Index represents the tax climate of each state as of July 1, 2012, the
LANSING - Voters overwhelmingly say they will consider each of the five constitutional amendments on the November ballot one by one and not simply reject them en masse, according to a poll commissioned by Gongwer News Service. Once five constitutional amendments were certified for the ballot, discussion began about whether voters might simply decide to
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder was joined by top Democratic and Republican officials on Tuesday to denounce the proposal that would require a two-thirds legislative majority vote or a statewide vote to increase taxes as merely a special interest initiative and that would hurt the state as a whole. "This is simply bad public policy.
LANSING - Republican former Governor Bill Milliken on Tuesday gave his support to the November ballot proposal that would require increasing the state's renewable energy standard to 25 percent by 2025. "I think the opportunity of renewable energy in Michigan is important enough that the 25 percent renewable policy should have the long-term certainty of
LANSING - As firearm deer hunting season approaches in Michigan ? and with many other seasons already under way ? the Department of Natural Resources is offering hunters and outdoor enthusiasts to begin their experience with MI-Hunt. Mi-HUNT, originally released in 2010, is a cutting-edge application that displays multiple layers of information, which can be