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
DETROIT - General Motors announced Tuesday it is opening an Information Technology Innovation Center in Warren and expects to hire up to 1,500 high-tech employees over the next several years to support the company's new approach to IT services. The GM Michigan Innovation Center is the second of four planned Innovation Centers in the United
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
EAST LANSING ? Registration is open for the 2012 MichBio Expo, Michigan?s largest annual gathering of bioscience leaders, scheduled for Nov. 7-8 at the Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center at Michigan State University. The annual event typically attracting about 450-500 attendees. Keynote Speaker is Teresa Stanek Rea, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property
ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan is ranked No. 20 in the world, according to the World University Rankings 2012-2013. U-M was ranked No. 18 in the 2011 survey. The annual list ranks the top 400 universities and is based on 13 performance indicators separated into five categories: teaching, research, citations, industry income and
DETROIT - Forty-four percent of U.S. executives aim to tackle current IT challenges through leveraging cloud solutions, and they are planning to invest more in cloud computing in the future. That is the finding of an IDC survey commissioned by T-Systems. Corporations expect cloud computing to deliver lower IT costs (26 percent) and to enable
LANSING - After a week in which both partisans of President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney drew cheer, observers concur that Obama continues to hold the lead among voters in Michigan. And given the right circumstances, Michigan could return to the top of the heap of battleground states that are drawing the