LANSING - August could become a pivotal time in terms of moving the stalled 2007-08 budget, legislative sources said Wednesday, as House Speaker Andy Dillon (D-Redford Twp.) and Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop (R-Rochester) are preparing to hold an extensive series of meetings on the budget. Sources indicate that both Houses could be preparing for
LANSING - The Michigan House Appropriations Committee was slated to make decisions on all of its education-related budgets but instead will leave that until next week as the chair said the bills were not ready Wednesday. There was some talk that there are changes being made to the School Aid budget (HB 4359) that were
CUPERTINO, Ca. - Mac users must wait until next year for fresh versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint: Microsoft has moved its intended launch of Office for Mac 2008 to January from the second half of this year. "We had hoped to hit the Christmas selling season, but now we hope to target Macworld" in
SOUTHFIELD ? Metastorm has acquired Proforma Corporation, which provides modeling software to make business process management run smoother. Proforma?s US operations are based in Southfield. Exact financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Metastorm CTO Greg Carter was reported saying Proforma was on track to earn about $20 million in sales for 2007,
LANSING ? Gov. Jennifer Granholm Wednesday launched her No Worker Left Behind job training program, which will provide up to two years of free tuition for 100,000 state residents any Michigan college or university that leads to a degree in a needed high-demand job ? such as biotech and renewable energy - or gains the
LANSING - Though Minnesota and federal investigators are still trying to determine why a highway bridge in Minneapolis collapsed Wednesday, Michigan Department of Transportation Director Kirk Steudle said such a catastrophic collapse in Michigan is unlikely. There are bridges in the state in need of repair, but none still in service have reached the point
DETROIT - Wayne State University has awarded nearly $2.4 million in investments in four programs, including seed grants for interdisciplinary research in Computational Biology ? part of WSU?s efforts to develop an institutional Clinical and Translational Science Award proposal for the National Institutes of Health. The program, now in its fifth year, was divided into
LANSING - When Pfizer announced it was moving its Ann Arbor laboratory and some of its other operations out of the state, Gov. Jennifer Granholm quickly announced the availability of loan funds to help displaced employees start new businesses in the state. But with the budget for Fiscal Year 2007-08 still unresolved, the status of
ANN ARBOR - University of Michigan scientists have received a pilot grant of nearly $1.3 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to test whether nanoparticles can help wounded solders on the battlefield by administering sustained, safe doses of the most effective painkillers long before they can reach expert medical help. The ultimate goal
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - Mozilla released on Tuesday an update to Firefox 2 that patches the Mozilla side of a flaw shared with Microsoft Internet Explorer. The update, Firefox 2.0.0.6, also patches a privilege escalation vulnerability. Current users of Firefox 2 will receive an update notice. Others can download it from the Mozilla site. Researcher