ANN ARBOR - Do you have a New Year's resolution to be more productive and accomplish more of your goals in 2007? Join the Women in Computing Book Club Jan. 25 to learn how. A new book, called Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, may be the book for you to read to
SAN FRANCISCO - It's not too late to get a great tech gift. In fact, some of the year's coolest products come out in November and December, like the gadgets rounded up by CNET News.Com. Archos 604 WiFi The do-everything Archos 604 WiFi is completely stacked with awesome video playback, Web surfing, and other useful
LANSING - The most contentious issue of the Michigan lame duck season - cable franchising reform - was signed into law on Thursday by Gov. Jennifer Granholm. The new legislation does not address Internet neutrality, a major issue raised by Google, which just opened its Midwest headquarters in Ann Arbor. The compromise HB 6456 ,
LANSING - Michigan high school students can now plan on receiving a state scholarship for going to college under the "Michigan Promise" scholarship program that Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed into law on Thursday. Granholm signed SB 1335 and HB 6302 at a ceremony in E.A. Johnson High School in Mt. Morris. The $4,000 scholarship the
LANSING - Michigan's fiscal situation has not yet hit bottom, Gov. Jennifer Granholm said Thursday in outlining a dire budget scenario that could include revenue proposals next year in order to protect services. The governor, in a year-end media roundtable, rebuffed repeated questions regarding whether tax increases or a restructuring of taxes are under consideration,
LANSING - The yet-to-be-signed Michigan Promise scholarship - the revamped version of the Merit scholarship - received the first in a week-long series of promotional events Tuesday as Governor Jennifer Granholm challenged students at a Lansing High School to accept the state's offer by pledging to go to college. The governor, who signed as a
LANSING - The states that cut taxes the most during the 1990s, including Michigan, faced larger overall fiscal problems and economic performance than did those states that were more restrained in their tax cuts, said a study released by the Washington D.C. organization the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The report from the liberal
LANSING - CyberMichigan and the Small Business Foundation of Michigan announced Wednesday the transfer of the Michigan Entrepreneurship Education Network program to SBFM. This transfer comes on the heels of a recent announcement that after eight years of intensive and successful work to meet its original mandate, the CyberMichigan Board of Advisors unanimously agreed to
LANSING - The Michigan Department of Management and Budget was able to shave more than half a billion dollars from the state's spending last fiscal year with changes in state contracts, leasing and financing. The $500.7 million savings was over the department's targets for the year, according to the department's annual report. "DMB has relentlessly
PLEASANT RIDGE ? Interactive promotions agency ePrize has promoted to of its staff members to the new positions of vice president of strategy. Matt Kates and Sara Kowal will co-lead all strategy efforts including all areas of promotion concept development, research, analysis and program development. Kates joined ePrize in 2005 as a senior director of