Michigan Technology related politics
LANSING - Michigan’s University Research Corridor contributed $18.7 billion to the state economy in 2017, up from $16.5 billion in 2015, a report from Anderson Economic Group reports. The impact also marks an increase of 46 percent since 2007, the year the URC was formed and began benchmarking its impact on the state of Michigan.
LANSING - The gubernatorial candidates, Republican Bill Schuette and Democrat Gretchen Whitmer, began the general election phase of their campaigns each with $1.5 million as both spent the past month scrambling to refill their campaign funds after winning expensive primaries. Post-primary campaign finance reports were due Thursday. As of August 27, Schuette's campaign had $1,531,726 cash on hand. Whitmer
LANSING - A-Lex International Marketing, a Schaumburg, Ill. based agency, has been selected to assist with Japanese attraction efforts in Michigan with the goal of creating new jobs and private investment in the state. “In the ever-intense competition to attract foreign based companies to Michigan, it is of utmost importance to strengthen our ties with
LANSING - After a repeated standoff between Republican and Democratic members of the Board of State Canvassers and repeated requests by officials of Voters Not Politicians to change the ballot language to better reflect what they said was the spirit of its redistricting proposal, a slight change allowed a 3-1 majority to approve what will
WASHINGTON - Michigan ranked seventh in a review of 400 state government websites that finds 99 percent fail at least one important measure of performance for page-load speed, mobile-friendliness, security, and accessibility. According to a new report by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, some states have much better websites than others, but every state
LANSING - During a tour on last week, Gov. Rick Snyder announced new plans to provide universal access to high-speed internet for every Michigan resident, business, region and community. “As technology continues to rapidly change and evolve, having access to fast, reliable internet is now a necessity for everyday life,” said Snyder at an event at
WASHINGTON DC - Late Monday, attorneys general of 22 states and the District of Columbia filed a brief urging a US Appeals Court to reverse the Federal Communications Commission's rollback of Obama-era rules governing an open internet, according to CBS News. The move was followed by companies like Mozilla, which filed its own brief, as well as
DETROIT - A U.S. District judge in South Carolina has held the federal Environmental Protection Agency did not follow federal administrative procedures when it issued a new rule governing the Great Lakes and other U.S. waters and has held implementation of the rule. The action means that Michigan and most the other Great Lakes states
LANSING - A tax credit to ease the cost of broadband internet service is among the recommendations of a state task force examining the status of broadband use in the state and ways to increase access. The report, the product of the Michigan Consortium of Advanced Networks, created through an executive order from Governor Rick Snyder,
LANSING - Public Citizen has called on Election Systems and Software to stop selling some of its voting machines because they group said they are vulnerable to hacking but Department of State officials said the company's machines used in Michigan are protected from those vulnerabilities. The group said the versions of the ESS machines that
