LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder made clear Thursday that he will not rush a still under development plan to eliminate the industrial portion of the personal property tax, declining to insist it even be passed this year. Separately, Snyder, in an interview with Gongwer News Service, said his top policy initiative for 2012 is winning
LANSING - A report surfaced Thursday that a film production facility in Pontiac may fall short of making its bond payment on which the state pension fund is the guarantor, but Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville says if lawmakers and the governor committed $100 million or more to the film industry incentives, it could come
SAN FRANCISCO - Hackers in Israel and other Middle Eastern countries are in the middle of a cyberwar that has led to disruptions of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, several Israeli banks, and an airline. As a result, some Israeli banks have blocked or are threatening to block international access to their sites to avoid
PLEASANT RIDGE - ePrize has announced its second acquisition in six months, buying Cellit, a Chicago-based mobile marketing agency. The deal adds 16 employees to ePrize, which will top 400 employees in 2012 forcing the digital marketing company to look for new headquarters. Cellit?s expertise in mobile marketing and customer relationship management products and services
LANSING - Having already offered a long list of major policy proposals in his first year in office, Governor Rick Snyder departed from the traditional State of the State address model of offering new ideas to guide the year and instead delivered more of a report card on where the state stands and a call
BEULAH ? Duke Energy, which had planned to develop a $360 million wind power project in Benzie and Manistee counties, has instead decided to discontinue development of the 16,000 acre project that could have generated up to 200 megawatts of renewable electricity to power about 60,000 homes. In a press release, the North Carolina-based company
SOUTHFIELD - The average age of cars and light trucks on the road today is a record 10.8 years, offering a sales opportunity for both the automotive aftermarket and for automakers who hope the public will buy new, rather than fix up. The annual survey from R.L. Polk shows the average age of cars and
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday its co-founder Jerry Yang has resigned from its board of directors, severing all ties with the Internet company he started nearly two decades ago. In a statement, Yang said: "the time has come for me to pursue other interests outside Yahoo." He added that he was also was
LANSING ? The state of Michigan's official travel and tourism web site attracted more visits than any state tourism web site in the country for the fifth consecutive year, according to the independent online measurement company Experian Hitwise. Michigan.Org received 7.69 percent of the overall market share of visits to state tourism sites, and had
SAN FRANCISCO - The Wikipedia community has chosen to blackout the English version of Wikipedia for 24 hours, in protest against proposed legislation in the United States ? the Stop Online Piracy Act in the U.S. House of Representatives, and PROTECTIP in the U.S. Senate. If passed, this legislation will harm the free and open