LANSING ? A bill that would securitize $1 billion of the state's tobacco settlement money to fund technology and life sciences start ups, would instead primarily be used to fund business tax cuts under a plan introduced Wednesday by Michigan House Republicans. Liz Boyd, spokesman for Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, said the House Republican proposal
LANSING ? The Michigan Land Bank Fast Track Authority added a new feature to its web site Wednesday, the ability for consumers to search on line for tax reverted properties to purchase. The web site also has links to other counties and cities throughout Michigan that have property search capabilities in their regions, including the
PONTIAC ? Oakland County will name on Halloween a private company to provide wireless broadband connections to five municipalities in the state?s second largest county. The word came Wednesday from Phil Bertolini, Oakland County Deputy Country Executive, who heads up the Wireless Oakland initiative. He said county executives hope that the pilot project will lead
DETROIT ? Former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for China Affairs, Charles Freeman III, will be the keynote speaker during the Detroit Chinese Business Association?s Ten-Year Anniversary event October 27 at the Troy Marriott Hotel. Freeman is based in Washington D.C. and is now the Managing Director for The China Alliance, an association of four law
SOUTHFIELD - Computer Associates International said it earned $41 million in its second fiscal quarter after posting a $98 million loss in the same three months a year ago. The news so buoyed CA?s board that it announced it would step up its marketing spending. CA employs 90 people in Michigan and nearly 500 in
LANSING ? Michigan Senate Republicans powered through their version of a $1 billion Single Business Tax cut Tuesday, sending their plan that would tie future tax cuts to increases in state revenue to the Michigan House. Senate Majority Leader Ken Sikkema (R-Wyoming) called passage of the package a major step forward and a good sign
LANSING ? Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Tuesday made a pitch for homeland security and defense contractors to build new facilities in Michigan. The governor also said the $1 billion tobacco securitization package now awaiting final approval in the legislature could become a source of state assistance to woo these job generating companies to Michigan. Granholm
WASHINGTON - President Bush named a White House economic adviser, Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board on Monday, to replace retiring chairman Alan Greenspan, who has held the reins on the American economy as the official keeper of interest rates since 1987. Bernanke instantly announced his first priority would be "to maintain
DETROIT ? The good news at Compuware in October ? a well attended OJ dot X developers? conference, recognition as one of Metropolitan Detroit's 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For, the Women's Leadership Index Most Valuable Player award ? could run out Thursday when the state?s largest native software company announces its quarterly
ANN ARBOR - The Association of Women in Computing Ann Arbor have announced their 2005 Top Michigan Women in Computing Award winners, who will be honored at the AWC Annual Gala scheduled for Nov. 5 at the Fairlane Club in Dearborn. The AWC honors the women for their extraordinary service in computing and outstanding scientific