ANN ARBOR - Consumers have low expectations for the near-term U.S. economic outlook because they still believe the country is in a recession despite it officially being over for more than two years, the research professor and director of consumer surveys for Thomson Reuters said Thursday. Richard Curtin said while policymakers have tried unemployment benefit
ANN ARBOR - Although talk of a double-dip recession has subsided, the U.S. economy will still only grow moderately over the next two years, economists at the University of Michigan's Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics said Thursday. It's expected the U.S. Gross Domestic Product will increase 1.8 percent this year and economists said to expect
LANSING - Pure Michigan. The sweeping lake vistas. The woods afire with autumnal splendor. The powdery snow covering a tranquil field. And over each image, the resonant voice of Tim Allen. And behind these ads, the state of Michigan has spent $67 million since 2006 in a bid to draw more tourists ? and their
EGHAM, U.K - Worldwide sales of mobile devices totaled 440.5 million units in the third quarter of 2011, up 5.6 percent from the same period last year, according to Gartner. Non-smartphone devices performed well, driven by demand in emerging markets for low-cost devices from white-box manufacturers, and for dual-subscriber identity module devices. Sales into the
LANSING - Five years of Pure Michigan national advertising is just beginning to buff up the state's rust-belt image. After the state had spent $67 million for the slick campaign featuring the voice of Michigan native Tim Allen, a survey done for the state found that Michigan still ranked in the middle of the pack
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder's veto pen might get its first use with Snyder unsupportive of a bill sent to him Thursday by the Legislature that would largely prohibit state departments from issuing rules stricter than federal regulations. Before breaking for a two-week recess, both chambers were actively finishing a package of bills dealing with
LANSING - Michigan would comply with the federal health care reform law by setting up its health exchange - a website called the MIHealth Marketplace - under a bill passed by the Senate Thursday although Republicans then took the step of reaffirming their opposition to "Obamacare." Similar to Orbitz.com, under the legislation Michigan's website would
WASHINGTON D.C. - State and federal authorities follow the movements of thousands of Americans each year by secretly monitoring the location of their cellphones, often with little judicial oversight, in a practice facing legal challenges, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Electronic tracking, used by police to investigate such crimes as drug dealing and murder,
LANSING - The State of Michigan's Martin Luther King-Cesar Chavez-Rosa Parks Initiative has been awarded a seven-year, $46 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to support 10,000 low-income students in 49 school districts throughout Michigan to enter and succeed in college. ?For Michigan to thrive, we must tap the intellectual resources of all
LANSING - Detroit International Bridge Company owner Manuel "Matty" Moroun could see jail time after his company was found in contempt Thursday for its failure to complete required work on the new approach ramps to the Ambassador Bridge. Wayne Circuit Judge Prentis Edwards found the company not only had not completed the changes to the