LANSING ? Michigan taxpayers would be more willing to accept a package of tax increases that solve a variety of state budget problems than they would several small proposals designed to fill only a single year's budget holes, Rep. Alma Wheeler Smith said in introducing a plan that would raise $6.5 billion, much of it
TRAVERSE CITY - New Federal Communications Commission Regulations for Online endorsements and testimonials in advertising could impact your On-Line business, starting Dec. 1. And the fines could run up to $11,000 per post. What: The FTC is adopting revised Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising with an effective date of December
GRAND RAPIDS ? Laura Fitton, co author of Twitter for Dummies, talks about how businesses can use the social networking tool to help build their Internet marketing and brand. Fitton was the keynote in November at an aimWest day-long program on social networking. To listen, click on MITechNews.JenesysGroup.Com a>>
LANSING - Municipal utilities will have to notify the Michigan Public Service Commission of a shutoff resulting in death or serious injury of a customer under legislation signed into law Monday by Gov. Jennifer Granholm. The legislation permits the PSC to investigate these cases and refer matters to the Department of Attorney General if needed.
ANN ARBOR - Amid the carnage of Michigan's shredded economy, economists at the University of Michigan found some glimmers of good news in their annual forecast issued Friday, saying the pace of job losses would slow substantially during 2010 and 2011. But the bottom line for the next two years will be a continued overall
ANN ARBOR - With the severe national recession of the past two years finally behind us, the pace of economic recovery will be slow and unemployment will remain high for quite some time, say economists at the University of Michigan in their annual forecast for the year ahead. "Based on the data currently available, the
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J.- Becton,Dickinson and Company announced on Friday the completion of its $275 million acquisition of Ann Arbor-based HandyLab, an exit that brought a record setting $2 million return to early investor, the University of Michigan Wolverine Venture Fund. The Wolverine Venture Fund, part of the University of Michigan's Samuel Zell & Robert H.
LANSING - Studio owners, laborers and producers flooded a committee hearing Wednesday on the future of the state's film credits, telling lawmakers that Michigan's on-again, off-again love affair with providing incentives to the industry is a bad way to do business. The Senate has passed legislation scaling back the film credits, but at the start
LANSING - Businesses would potentially be able to get venture capital funding earlier in their development process and the state could see more venture capitalists under a proposal unveiled Wednesday to the Strategic Fund Board. Under the plan, $6 million of the funds that had gone through the Strategic Economic Investment and Commercialization Board for
LANSING - Committee action, mostly on the Michigan House side, will be the name of the game this week, including a discussion by two panels on the future of the state's film credits. The quiet legislative week is attributable to the start of the deer hunting season, which is a traditional time off for lawmakers.