LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation Friday announced Michigan Strategic Fund approval of Michigan Business Development Program $1.8 million in incentives to four companies that as a result are expected to generate nearly $14.5 million in investments and add 442 new jobs. ?Michigan?s comeback story is being documented almost daily with news of companies
LANSING - A report released Wednesday by Transportation for America said that more than 12 percent of Michigan's bridges are structurally deficient. The Fix We're In For 2013 national report shows that Michigan's number of deficient bridges, though improved from 2011, is still more than the national average of 11 percent, or about 67,000 bridges
LANSING - After reconsidering the vote by which a bill that would essentially increase hunting and fishing licenses by about 40 percent did not pass, the Michigan Senate finally found success on Wednesday. After defeating the bill on Tuesday, the Senate took another stab at voting on the bill (HB 4668 ) on Wednesday. It
LANSING - Rep. Wayne Schmidt said on Tuesday major bills to increase transportation funding for the state through an increase in registration fees and a switch to wholesale taxes on gasoline won't see any movement until after the Legislature comes back from summer break. "I know the governor is engaged on it, I know the
LANSING - The Michigan Senate on Wednesday will take another shot at trying to send a bill expanding Medicaid with multiple reforms and provisions to Governor Rick Snyder. There was much anticipation that the chamber would take HB 4714 up on Tuesday, but after several hours-long caucuses, it seemed Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville (R-Monroe)
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder announced Friday that he would make his fifth trade and investment mission trip, this time to Israel, in an attempt to strengthen ties in the academic, automotive and business communities. Previously, the governor has gone to locations in the Far East, Europe and Canada. Snyder, in a press call, described
LANSING - Michigan has been making educational improvements since the implementation of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, but at one of the slowest rates in the nation, a new report said. The study by Education Sector showed Michigan with the fifth lowest improvement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress of the 50
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder has long enjoyed rock-solid support from the Republican Party, but the move by several prominent tea party activists to urge conservatives to "sit out" Snyder's anticipated 2014 re-election campaign puts into question whether Snyder can rely on a robust GOP turnout. Snyder has never been a tea party favorite, not
LANSING - The Department of Treasury has issued a bulletin defining "active solicitation" of business that includes operating a website or sending emails to entice purchasers from Michigan to qualify to pay the Michigan Corporate Income Tax. Those solicitations, which can include advertising and mailing coupons and catalogs, can count as establishing nexus within the
LANSING - Legislation designed to open up more privately owned forestland to the timber industry was signed into law Thursday by Governor Rick Snyder, who hailed the bills as boosting the state's economy. "This is an opportunity to export more," he said at a news conference with legislators and timber industry officials. "This is actually