LANSING ? Michigan House and Senate leaders have decided to put legislation that would increase funding for roads into a House-Senate conference committee in hopes a compromise can be found using that legislative mechanism. The decision came after a Tuesday meeting of the Legislative Quadrant and Governor Rick Snyder. Spokespersons for House Speaker Jase Bolger
LANSING - The Senate on Tuesday voted to send to Governor Rick Snyder a revised version of a bill aimed at increasing work in Michigan for those in the film industry and receiving some income tax from higher-paid producers or actors from certain successful projects. SB 1103 had recently been changed by the House to
WASHINGTON - The FBI still can't prove who was - or wasn't - behind last month's cyberattack on Sony Pictures, which led to the theft of thousands of documents and revealed confidential information about the company and its employees. "There is no attribution to North Korea at this point," said Joe Demarest, assistant director of
ANN ARBOR - Stewart Thornhill, executive director of the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, looks into his crystal ball for 2015 and sees technology continuing to shake up the business world. Here are his predictions: The war for connected wearables heats up The broader trend
LANSING - The Michigan Film Office on Monday announced the approval of film and digital media incentives for the final five projects of fiscal year 2014, bringing its year-end totals to 27 projects awarded more than $63.7 million in incentives. The Film Office said the incentives would generate more than $245.4 million of projected expenditures
LANSING - The Michigan House narrowly approved bills Thursday to remove the sales tax from gasoline over six years, a move that would deny schools and local governments hundreds of millions of dollars they otherwise would receive, and switch to a percentage-based wholesale tax on gasoline that tops off at 13.5 percent to raise money
LANSING - Unemployment rates in 16 of Michigan's 17 labor markets fell in October when compared to September, figures released Tuesday by the Department of Technology, Management and Budget showed. Only in the Detroit-Warren-Livonia market, the state's largest, did October's unemployment rate remain unchanged from the 8.1 percent in September, the state said. The jobless
WARREN ? If you want to meet the ITINTheD.Com gang, as well as donate a new toy to a Southeast Michigan boy or girl in need, then the next ITINTheD in-person networking event Thursday Dec. 11 at Falling Down Beer Company is where you want to be. ITINTheD.Com is teaming up with Operation Kid Equip
LIVONIA - The tight talent market in Michigan is driving employers to increase variable compensation programs - better known as incentive pay - in order to compete for and retain high-performing employees, a recent survey contends. The survey shows in 2014, by the American Society of Employers, with 73 percent of employers offering bonuses to
ANN ARBOR - Ann Arbor has been chosen by Global Trade magazine as one of "America's Best Cities for Global Trade". Ann Arbor was recognized for being a hub for innovative research and education, and for having one of the lowest unemployment rates in Michigan. Every year, the editors at Global Trade magazine compile the