LANSING - Gov. Jennifer Granholm presented the broad brush strokes of her proposed budget during her State of the State address in January. Last week, she provided the fine print for the Michigan legislature. BL Government Affairs? Brendan Ringlever takes a close look at her legislative priorities in this special edition of News Maker Interview.
LANSING - There's a movement afoot in Lansing to blend all the state's business and sales taxes into one super Fair Tax that would not only hit folks paying taxes now, but also people in the underground economy - including cash only deals from criminals and illegal aliens - plus tourists that visit the state.
WATERLOO, Ontario ? If you own a BlackBerry, you already know this story. Research in Motion, which makes the BlackBerry, experienced a significant outage of its wireless email service on Monday, its second nationwide disruption in the last 12 months. The company notified its customers of the problem Monday afternoon, saying that the outage was
LANSING - Michigan has some terrific assets that need to be better utilized to nurture job-creating entrepreneurs, contends the 2007-2008 Entrepreneurship Score Card from the Small Business Foundation of Michigan. Mark Clevey, foundation executive director, said that the state has thousands of entrepreneurs starting small businesses every year?and they need more help than the state
WASHINGTON DC - African-American entrepreneurs face a pretty challenging set of circumstances when it comes to starting businesses and accessing capital to start or grow a business says new research sponsored by the US Census Bureau. New research shows that African-Americans still lag Caucasians in many categories of business ownership and growth. In 2000, roughly
DETROIT - Compuware,which makes computer testing, development and management software, on Monday announced it has promoted Robert Paul to President and Chief Operating Officer, effective April 1. Paul currently is President of Compuware Covisint. He will continue to report to Compuware Chairman and CEO Peter Karmanos Jr. Paul will lead the company's worldwide products and
SOUTHFIELD ? IT services company TechTeam Global on Monday announced that Gary Cotshott, a 33-year veteran of Dell and NCR Corporation, has been named President and Chief Executive Officer and a Director effective immediately. In accordance with the previously announced succession plan, Cotshott succeeds William (Chris) Brown. Brown will remain with TechTeam though the end
LANSING - Michigan has some terrific assets that need to be better utilized to nurture job-creating entrepreneurs, contends the 2007-2008 Entrepreneurship Score Card from the Small Business Foundation of Michigan. Mark Clevey, foundation executive director, said that the state has thousands of entrepreneurs starting small businesses every year?and they need more help than the state
ROYAL OAK - Women in Communications of Detroit is accepting nominations for its top awards celebrating excellence in the communications field - its annual Vanguard and Diamond awards. The Vanguard Award recognizes an individual or organization for innovatively employing a communications medium in 2007. Last year's winner was Model D e-zine for its alternative and
DETROIT ? A new study warns that unless Michigan starts creating or attracting more knowledge-based workers ? and vibrant metropolitan areas for them to live ? the economic future of the state could be bleak indeed. In its first report card on Michigan's progress in developing a knowledge-based economy, Michigan Future Inc. said the state