LANSING - Though he did not give specific recommendations, Governor Rick Snyder received mostly praise from various energy policy interests around the state and region on Thursday after hosting a roundtable in Detroit, saying he hopes to have a comprehensive plan by 2015 on the state's energy policy for goals spanning a decade. Snyder stressed
LANSING - The Michigan Workforce Development Agency Tuesday announced Michigan Strategic Fund approval of $3,549,938 in Skilled Trades Training Fund program grants to 14 Michigan Works! agencies around the state for skilled trades training to better match talent with employer needs. ?As Michigan?s economy continues to improve, there is an increasing demand in many businesses
LANSING - Republican Governor Rick Snyder and GOP senatorial candidate Terri Land are looking much stronger in a new survey from Public Policy Polling than the last time the firm polled those races months ago. In June, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer had a small lead over Snyder, 42 percent to 38 percent. Now Snyder
LANSING ? Government incentives of $2.3 million will incentive four companies to spend up to $35.4 million on investments that the state hopes will create 285 new jobs. The Michigan Economic Development Corporation announced Michigan Strategic Fund approval of Michigan Business Development and Community Revitalization program incentives to those four companies. The Michigan Strategic Fund
LANSING - On Wednesday the House Education Committee sent to the full House one of the most sweeping reforms of the state's schools: a package of bills that would affect every school by requiring the retention of third-graders who do not test proficient in reading and creating a letter grading system of the state's schools.
LANSING - The Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would streamline the process for phone companies to end traditional landline service to customers under certain conditions, changing some wording to ensure the Public Service Commission must take a consumer's complaint regarding service providers if his or her current provider chooses to discontinue that service.
LANSING - Michigan residents are slightly less confident about their personal economics than they were earlier in the year, the most recent State of the State Survey shows, though a larger number of respondents felt they were better off today than a year ago. Most also felt they would be better still in another year,
LANSING - A push by Governor Rick Snyder to revive one of his top legislative priorities, to codify and expand the powers of the Education Achievement Authority that oversees the worst-performing schools in the state, is leading to talk of possible movement in the Senate before the end of the year. HB 4369 has been
LANSING - The Michigan Public Service Commission would serve as a safety valve to address concerns about the loss of voice service in an area where a provider decides to end traditional landline service and no credible alternative exists under a bill approved Tuesday by a Senate committee. The Senate Energy and Technology Committee adopted
ANN ARBOR - A survey showed U.S. consumers continue to have little faith in the federal government, and various fiscal crises, including debates about the debt ceiling, the fiscal cliff and the partial government shutdown, do not help, causing consumers to remain grim in their economic outlooks. Richard Curtin, director of the Thomson Reuters, University