WASHINGTON DC - Michigan's Congressional delegation, in a message mirrored by the delegation from Ohio, on Monday urged the Bush administration to use authority within the $700 billion financial rescue package to provide immediate help to the Detroit Three automakers. The potential crisis that could force the closure of more manufacturing sites also prompted mayors
LANSING - The 18 Michigan Technical Education Centers operated by most of the state's community colleges have been effective in identifying and delivering occupational training for high-skilled, high-demand jobs, but the schools could do a better job using those programs and the state could improve its monitoring of those centers, an audit released Friday concludes.
LANSING - The survival of the Michigan-based domestic auto industry, hammered again with $2.6 billion in quarterly losses, is getting top attention by President-elect Barack Obama, who on Friday called the industry the "backbone" of American manufacturing. Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, who was part of a meeting in Chicago with Obama on the economy, said
LANSING - Governor Jennifer Granholm said Thursday she is asking for the U.S. government to move quickly on a series of proposals geared towards stimulating and protecting the state's economy, particularly the battered auto industry. She also outlined four priorities for legislative action in the lame duck session that she said would help promote job
LANSING - Saying it was clear that the national economic situation would hurt state revenues, Governor Jennifer Granholm said in a Thursday press conference that she would issue an executive order cutting the 2008-09 budget this year - sources said the cuts would be from $300 million to $600 million. The decision on the amount
LANSNG - Michigan voters appear to have rejected worries that expanded embryonic stem cell research would lead to both unregulated experimentation and increased taxpayer costs as Proposal 2008-2 has won narrowly. Supporters of Proposal 2008-1, on the other hand, lit up an easy win on their proposal to allow the use of prescribed medical marijuana
LANSING - Tuesday brought more than 5.1 million people to the polls, a record number of total voters in Michigan, and a 68 percent turnout, Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land estimated Wednesday. The county with the highest total percentage turnout was Ottawa, who voted at 79 percent, Kelly Chesney, spokeswoman for the Secretary of
DETROIT - Compuware Corporation on Tuesday announced that its Covisint subsidiary will electronically connect hospitals in Michigan's thumb region to enable the secure sharing of patient info electronically. Covisint has dubbed the initiative the Michigan Thumb Health Information System (THIS). Participating THIS hospitals will initially include Deckerville Community Hospital, Harbor Beach Community Hospital and Mercy
WASHINGTON - Democratic candidate Barack Obama has been elected the first African-American president of the United States. As polls closed at 11 pm Eastern Time, Obama won all of the states that voted Democratic four years ago. But he also won a number of key states that had supported President Bush, including Virginia, Ohio, Iowa,
LANSING - Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm said she will not become Secretary of Energy in President-elect Barack Obama's administration, instead she will remain at the helm of Michigan until her term expires in 2010. Granholm denied rumors she would head to Washington DC Tuesday during an interview with WWJ Newsradio 950: "I have two years