LANSING - The Michigan Senate is planning to pass legislation cutting small business taxes and earmarking funds for the Budget Stabilization Fund when it comes back into session this week. That would keep with the schedule that Senate Majority Leader Ken Sikkema (R-Wyoming) and House Speaker Craig DeRoche (R-Novi) announced when they outlined their first
SOUTHFIELD ? The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Lawrence Tech as one of 20 schools - the only Michigan university - to compete in the 2007 Solar Decathlon. LTU gets $100,000 over two years to develop ways to reduce the cost of solar-powered homes. ?The next generation of leaders will have an opportunity to
ANN ARBOR - If you think your technology company is ready to pitch at the grand daddy of all private equity events, then this is the annoucement you've been waiting for. The 2006 Michigan Growth Capital Symposium issued a call Monday for applications to pitch hundreds of potential investors at the 25th anniversary Symposium in
LANSING - With little fanfare Wednesday, the Michigan Legislature, reconvening for the first session of 2006, adopted a concurrent resolution creating an oversight committee to look after the 21st Century Jobs Fund. SCR 38 was the only action taken by both chambers during the day, setting the stage for what could be a political battle
LIVONIA ? Kalamazoo Valley Community College's RFID Technnology Center is offering a series of seminars with the Procurement Technical Assistance Centers of Michigan for government contractors that need to learn how to affix RFID tags to their products to comply with new federal mandates. Meeting the DOD RFID Mandate is scheduled to take place at
BIRMINGHAM - NextEnergy's Jim Croce and DTE Energy's Ganesh Ananthasubramaniam will discuss alternative energy investment opportunities on Jan. 18 at the next meeting of the Great Lakes Angels. THe meeting also will feature a presentation by NEXTEP SYSTEMS of Troy, which has developed a touchscreen ordering system for the fast food and concessions industries. The
ROYAL OAK - If you have old cell phones, pagers, PDA's and digital cameras you no longer use than Detroit Entrepreneurship Institue wants to talk with you. DEI will recycle your tech toys and help entrepreneurs and provide economic literacy training to individuals in Southeast Michigan with limited resources. For each cell phone, pager, PDA
GRAND HAVEN ? Media 1 won the Distinguished Technical Communication award given by the West Michigan Shores Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication for its work on a Hewlett-Packard guide. Media 1 was honored for developing an HP quick reference for HP Indigo digital press sales executives acts as a refresher following an intensive
BLOOMFIELD HILLS - Growing pains have forced Entrepreneur and Investor Exchange to move its monthly meetings from the Fox and Hounds Restaurant to the Radisson Kingsley Inn on Woodward Avenue just south of Long Lake Road. E&I Exchange president Bruce Brogan said the move is prompted by a growing number of entrepreneurs, small business service
DETROIT - There?s a lot less hype from automakers at the 2006 North American International Auto Show about alternative energy-powered vehicles, but David Cole, Chairman of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor said not to worry ? the focus now is on action, not talk. What?s happening now is Ford, General Motors and