LANSING - On Friday, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, as expected, vetoed legislation cutting the Single Business Tax and blocking a proposed ergonomics rule. The SBT tax cut would have saved the average business about $700 a year. Senate Majority Leader Ken Sikkema (R-Wyoming) and House Speaker Craig DeRoche (R-Novi) said those actions would hold the
BLOOMFIELD HILLS - An injury to the founder of Entrepreneur & Investor Exchange has forced the group to cancel its monthly networking and pitch meetings until September. Founder Fritz Spademan fell twice and broke several bones, which he said in a message to his members "will take some time to heal." Spademan went on to
LANSING - Michigan Citizen Action, in cooperation with the organization Drug Industry Immunity Must End, launched a series of radio ads this week aimed at passage of a House bill that would repeal lawsuit liability for drug companies accused of injuring or killing people with their product. The radio spots were launched through a series
LANSING - A Michigan House Appropriations subcommittee on Thursday learned that Michigan would have to compete more with other states this year to receive federal dollars for homeland security, as the state has already had to reprioritize funds that continue to diminish each year. Captain Kriste Etue, deputy state director of homeland security and emergency
LANSING - For the second time in less than a month, Gov. Jennifer Granholm will lose a key member of her cabinet with Treasurer Jay Rising stepping down to become executive vice president and chief financial officer for the Detroit Medical Center. Gongwer News Service reported Thursday that Rising's departure at the end of February
DETROIT - General Motors on Thursday said it has chosen several technology companies to outsource up to $15 billion of information technology work, as the No. 1 automaker tries to cut costs, restructure operations and replace work done by EDS in a 10-year contract that expires this year. EDS, formerly owned by GM, will have
LANSING - Paula Cunningham, who had been the popular president of Lansing Community College, stepped down from that post on Wednesday and was immediately named by Gov. Jennifer Granholm as the new director of the Department of Labor and Economic Growth, replacing David Hollister. Granholm had been in discussions with Cunningham about the post for
TROY - GlobalAutoIndustry.com on Thursday announced the launch of GlobalAutoTV, a new Internet-based television network that will podcast in video its content. Rare MEDIUM Well Done will produce video programming. GlobalAutoTV editorial content will include weekly podcast interviews with global experts. The Premier Interview will feature former White House China expert, Charles W. Freeman III.
LANSING - Gov. Jennifer Granholm's proposal to create a health care plan for 550,000 state residents that do not now have health insurance could cut health-care costs and improve business competitiveness, administration officials said during a hearing Wednesday. The program would cover adults with incomes up to 200 percent of the poverty line, which for
ANN ARBOR - Photoshop, the popular digital photography software, was invented by former University of Michigan PhD student, Thomas Knoll, whose love of photography revolutionized the medium. In June, Knoll and his wife Ruth, will co-host the third annual Photoshop Soup2Nuts conference, which will attract some of the world's top digital photography experts to Washtenaw