WASHINGTON DC - A Democrat-sponsored cybersecurity measure that the Obama administration calls necessary to protect the nation's infrastructure was blocked by Republicans opposed to what they considered to be undue regulation. The Cybersecurity Act of 2012 needed 60 votes to move to a vote by the full Senate, thanks to a Republican filibuster of the
LANSING - On the school report cards issued Thursday by the Department of Education, 286 schools ranked as Reward Schools, but 146 were Priority Schools and 358 were Focus Schools needing some level of intervention. The report also showed adequate yearly progress measures took the hit officials expected they would. Changes to the cut scores
MOUNT CLEMENS - Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel announced his plan to build an $11 million, 25,000-square-foot operations and communications center that he said will be the first of its kind in Michigan. The center will combine communication between several Macomb County departments such as the Sheriff?s Office dispatch, the Roads Department Traffic Operations Center,
LANSING - From the files of strange but true: Michigan's economy is improving so strongly that the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs is laying off more than 400 workers from the unit that handles calls from the jobless with questions about unemployment benefits. The layoffs involve 177 temporary workers and up to 225 permanent
DETROIT ? The Mobile Technology Association of Michigan is hosting its Mobile Moves Michigan mobile wireless technology conference at Motor City Casino on July 30th and 31st. Attend WIPJam to: ? Connect with mobile development experts from across North America. ? Discover new APIs, Tools, SDKs for app development. ? Get a crash course in
DETROIT - Net income for Compuware Corporation fell to $10.5 million (5 cents per share) vs. $17 million (8 cents per share) a year earlier, a decline of 38.2 percent from the year-earlier quarter. Revenue fell 1.6 percent to $226.2 million from the year-earlier quarter. Compuware beat the mean analyst estimate of 4 cents per
LANSING - President Barack Obama continues to lead his Republican rival Mitt Romney in the latest poll of Michigan voters released by Rasmussen Reports, but his margin has slipped some. Released Tuesday, the latest poll showed Obama favored by 48 percent of those questioned compared to 42 percent favoring Romney. Another 5 percent favored another
TROY - The nomination due date for the Automation Alley 12th Annual Awards Gala has been extended by two days to 5 p.m. Thursday. New this year: Online voting. After the finalists have been announced, online voting will be open for two weeks. The Awards Gala is one of Southeast Michigan's most prestigious events honoring
DETROIT - Comerica Bank's Michigan Economic Activity Index jumped 1.9 points in May, to 103.9, 73 percent above the index cyclical low of 59.9 during the recent recession. The index has averaged 102 points in the first five months of 2012, 11 points above the index average for all of 2011. "The economic recovery of
NEW YORK - Computer-security experts took down the world's third-largest botnet, which they say was responsible for 18 percent of the world's spam. Command-and-control servers in Panama and the Netherlands pumping out up to 18 billion spam messages a day for the Grum botnet were taken down Tuesday, but the botnet's architects set up new