MACKINAC ISLAND - Michigan and all states need to do seven things to be considered business-friendly, Michael Porter, a top business professor at Harvard, told the Detroit Regional Chamber Policy Conference. None of the seven items directly had to do with lowering taxes, and some should not have to cost the state any money, he
MACKINAC ISLAND - A nationally known educator who has developed a pioneering school in Harlem said the United States will destroy itself if it fails to take full notice of demographic trends and educate children to meet the challenges those trends will mean. Geoffrey Canada, president of Harlem Children's Zone, said that by 2040 the
MACKINAC ISLAND - Michigan's new budget has put the state in a better position fiscally than many other states, Budget Director John Nixon said, and after a decade of struggling with budgets Michigan now finds other states contacting it to see how it constructed its 2011-12 budget. Nixon, who will join Governor Rick Snyder in
MACKINAC ISLAND - Nobody is quite ready to claim victory for a new international bridge in Detroit but supporters have expressed confidence that legislation authorizing the bridge will win passage, and legislators once solidly opposed to the project are taking a more open stance on the proposal. With getting a new bridge, called by Governor
MACKINAC ISLAND - Michigan will put special focus on talent development and needs, with it the focus of his November message, Governor Rick Snyder said at the opening of the 2011 Detroit Regional Chamber meeting. In his opening remarks to the conference, Snyder also urged attendees and the state as a whole to be positive
MACKINAC ISLAND - With legislation authorizing the process to build a new bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, submitted Wednesday for introduction, Governor Rick Snyder said he hoped the Legislature would finish work on the measure by July. And he also said the legislation, introduced by Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville (R-Monroe), was not in
MACKINAC ISLAND ? Michigan's businesses will have new ways to buy and sell, raise capital, and connect with each other through the $3 million Pure Michigan Business Connect initiative announced Thursday. Huntington National Bank's guarantee to loan $2 billion over four years for commercial and small Michigan-based companies, makes up the bulk of it. Governor
TROY ? A new report from Automation Alley contends Michigan is among the leaders in technology innovation in the nation with Metro Detroit and Grand Rapids ranking as two of the nation's top technology centers. Automation Alley?s 2011 Technology Industry Report was done by the Anderson Economic Group, a business consulting firm based in East
AUBURN HILLS - An initial public offering on Wall Street sometime next year could be in the cards for Plex Systems, which provides Plex Online, a cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning software for manufacturers. Plex CEO Mark Symonds, during an interview earlier this month at PowerPlex 2011 Conference in Dearborn, said Plex is looking to ?go
GRANDVILLE ? Cloud computing solutions that allow access to data anytime, anywhere, from any device will be the focus of Trivalent Group's Seventh Annual Solutions Expo June 16 at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park. Cloud computing is just the latest technology offered by the privately held IT services provider that has posted 72 consecutive