DETROIT - As part of the city of Detroit?s Chapter 9 bankruptcy petition filing, Governor Rick Snyder in a four-page letter outlines his reasons for allowing the city to do so, saying it is the only ?reasonable way? to address the city?s insolvency. ?I have reached the conclusion that this step is necessary after a
LANSING - A study funded by the Marketplace Fairness Coalition suggests passing legislation closing the loopholes that currently allow Internet retailers not to charge the state's 6 percent sales tax would create a larger base and create the potential for reduce tax rates. The study shows the state could increase jobs by 44,000 and gross
LANSING - All of the state's universities show a gap in six-year graduation rates between white students and minorities, some of them significant, a report released Wednesday by the Education Trust showed. The report, which looked at higher education institutions across the country based on data submitted to the U.S. Department of Education for 2011,
LANSING - As the Michigan House Education subcommittee begins hearings on the Common Core State Standards, one business group is pushing its members to reach out to legislators and others on the importance of maintaining the standards. Business Leaders for Michigan sent an email Tuesday touting the standards as an economic development tool. "As a
DETROIT ? In a filing disclosed Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Compuware and a New York investment fund have extended a standstill agreement between them to Sept. 15. New York based Elliot Management and its subsidiaries said the agreement was to have expired Monday, but the parties agreed Friday to extend it
GRAND RAPIDS - Michigan Health Connect is the first health information exchange in the state to effectively transfer infectious disease lab reports from hospitals to the state health department, saving valuable response time during disease outbreaks. Seven McLaren Heath Care hospitals in Michigan ? McLaren Bay Region, McLaren Central Michigan, McLaren Flint, McLaren Greater Lansing,
WEST BLOOMFIELD ? Gibbs Sports Amphibians, maker of the world's first personal sports amphibian, plans to add a hundred new dealers nationwide, hire more employees to assemble the land-water vehicles in Auburn Hills, and introduce a new two-passenger model later this year. The company has orders to build 1000 Quadskis in 2013, said Gibbs Communications
LANSING - The Public Service Commission on Thursday proposed a funding factor of 91 cents per meter per month as its first annual income energy assistance funding factor for the Low-Income Energy Assistance Fund created by law earlier this month. The factor was based on the assumption that all utilities that have filed nothing yet
WEST BLOOMFIELD ? The labor market for engineering talent has fundamentally changed in Michigan becoming a sellers' market, so says The Hunter Group, an executive search agency. ?If you have a strong technical background and you?re not working, it?s by choice,? said Sherry Muir Irwin, a partner in The Hunter Group, founded in 1995 to
NOVI ? The second Michigan Cyber Summit will be held on Oct. 25 and feature Gov. Rick Snyder and other leaders in the state?s efforts to grow a cyber security industry. The summit also will serve as the host event for the second meeting of the National Governors Association Resource Center for State Cybersecurity Advisory