LANSING - As universities announce decisions on tuition increases, they are effectively sending a message to Michigan lawmakers that they need action on the 2007-08 budget and hopefully that budget will include an increase for universities. But it is unclear that message will achieve the results the schools hope to get from the Legislature and
LANSING - Steven Transeth, lead attorney in drafting many of the recent changes in utility law, was named Friday by Gov. Jennifer Granholm to the Michigan Public Service Commission. The appointment gives the commission a quorum for its meeting in two weeks, but still leaves it without a chair. Officials said Granholm would name a
DETROIT ? Hilary Ratner has been named Vice President of the Wayne State University Division of Research, while Joseph Dunbar has been named Associate Vice President of Research. The new posting take effect July 1. Ratner was associate provost, dean of the Graduate School, director of international programs and professor of psychology; Dunbar, chair of
LANSING ? Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed into law Thursday a replacement for the controversial Single Business Tax that its supporters said would jump start the languishing Michigan economy. "All right, it's soup," a beaming Granholm said as she inked the Michigan Business Tax (SB 94 , PA 36) into law during a signing ceremony.
LANSING ? Michigan Sen. Bob Emerson (D-Flint) has been appointed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm as the state's new budget director succeeding Mary Lannoye, who steps down from that position at the end of the year. Emerson, who was Senate Minority Leader and is term-limited, will take over the duties January 3, the governor's office said.
LANSING - Michigan had 10.1 million residents in 2006, about the same number it had in 2005, according to estimates released Friday by the U.S. Census Bureau. That leaves Michigan the eighth largest state, housing 3.4 percent of the nation's population. The report shows the state's population beginning to level after a growth spurt from
LANSING - The Michigan Senate Technology and Energy Committee will be split into two separate committees with emerging technologies being paired with homeland security under a series of committee assignments announced by Senate Majority Leader-elect Sen. Mike Bishop (R-Rochester). The renamed Energy Policy Committee will be chaired by Sen. Bruce Patterson (R-Canton), who had chaired
KALAMAZOO ? Government software applications provider Manatron said its board has rejected a takeover attempt by Canadian-based Constellation Software to purchase all of Manatron?s outstanding shares for $46 million because the offer ?would not be in the best interests of the company, its shareholders or other stakeholders.? Constellation made its offer on Dec. 18 through
SOUTHFIELD ? Michigan, Ohio and Illinois business leaders are more positive than negative about their chances for success in the current economy, contends a new survey from Plante & Moran. The survey also shows that despite persistent claims that an entitlement mentality is pervasive among the region's workers, the more than 100 executives interviewed agreed
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