Michigan Technology related politics
LANSING – With this year’s income tax season coming to a close on Tuesday, the Michigan Department of Treasury urges Michiganders to be vigilant as cybercriminals use new and old tricks to take advantage of taxpayers. For the 2015 tax year, over 33,000 returns were stopped, preventing more than $70 million in potentially fraudulent refunds
LANSING - All of the state's medical marijuana licensing functions are now consolidated in the Bureau of Medical Marihuana Regulation in the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, the administration announced Thursday. Under the reorganization, the new bureau will hold the Michigan Medical Marihuana Program patient and caregiver registry as well as licensing medical marijuana
LANSING – Michigan taxpayers who still have not filed their state income tax returns are encouraged to consider e-filing with returns due in less than a week, according to the Michigan Department of Treasury. By 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, April 18, state income tax returns must be submitted by e-filing or postmarked through the U.S.
WASHINGTON DC – U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) Friday led a bipartisan group of their Senate colleagues in a letter calling for increased funding to support the advancement of connected and automated vehicle technologies. The letter specifically calls for Congress to appropriate funding for the safe development and testing of CAV
SAN FRANCISCO - If you're crossing the border into the US, customs officials have broad rights to search your phone, laptop and other electronic devices. You can try to resist. But refusing to tell Customs and Border Protection your password might lead agents to detain you indefinitely, confiscate your devices or send you off to
DEARBORN - U.S. Rep Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) has asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for details into why the Corps is planning on moving a shipment of hazardous, contaminated waste into Michigan for disposal. In a letter to Lt. General Todd Semonite, commanding general to the Corps, Dingell asked why the Michigan site was
LANSING - Michigan's largely industrial economy could be the one most dramatically harmed by a so-called border adjustment tax that has been discussed in Washington, D.C., a report by the organization Americans for Prosperity has said. A border adjustment tax has been discussed as part of a major tax restructuring by President Donald Trump
LANSING – Michigan’s technology industry employment grew by an estimated 5.1 percent in 2016 as employers added more than 10,700 new jobs, according to Cyberstates 2017, the definitive annual analysis of the nation’s tech industry released Monday by CompTIA, a technology association. With an estimated 221,994 workers, Michigan ranks tenth among the 50 states for
LANSING - Michigan High school students would have some additional ways to meet the state's high school standards with a focus on career technical education under a package of bills passed by the Michigan House Thursday. Under the bills, HB 4315 and HB 4316, the Michigan Merit Curriculum requirements for arts, foreign language, health education
LANSING - Proposed funding for the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs will jump in the 2017-18 budget, but still be a bit smaller than Gov. Rick Snyder’s proposal following action by a House Appropriations subcommittee. The LARA subcommittee reported HB 4239 to the full House Appropriations Committee unanimously but at $1 million less than
