LANSING - Just 1,329 Michiganders have completed enrollment in a health insurance plan through the deeply troubled federal exchange in the first month of operations, a pace that would put enrollment numbers a whopping 95 percent below the forecast for enrollment in the first year. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder signed five bills Wednesday designed to allow military veterans to allow their experience in the armed forces to qualify them for similar civilian jobs. Snyder signed legislation enabling: Veterans who specialized in military health care to obtain an emergency medical technician or related license, with fees waived for those honorably
SAN FRANCISCO - Internet Bug Bounty challenges you to hack your way into such critical Web platforms as OpenSSL, PHP, Perl, and Apache for the chance to earn as much as $5,000. Sponsored by Microsoft and Facebook, one challenge even invites you to hack the Internet itself, meaning finding a bug that affects a wide
DETROIT ? If you want to get a chance to check out Google Glass, the search engine?s new wearable computer, you can do so Nov. 16-17 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Since May, Google has been beta testing Glass, which will display on-the-go maps, voice searches, video calls, photo sharing and more. More
LANSING - Several key metrics to watch when it comes to the health of a governor's re-election prospects show Governor Rick Snyder is in better shape for re-election in 2014 than former Governor John Engler was for his first re-election bid in 1994 or former Governor Jennifer Granholm was in 2006, according to a polling
LANSING - Jeff Holyfield, who joined Governor Rick Snyder's staff just eight months ago as communications director, has moved to the vacant post as spokesperson for the Lottery Bureau. Prior to joining Snyder's administration, Holyfield had been communications director for Consumers Energy and before that had a long run as a reporter for The Associated
WASHINTON DC - Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden reportedly gained access to classified data after persuading several co-workers to reveal their passwords. As many as 20 to 25 workers at a National Security Agency base in Hawaii revealed their login credentials to Snowden, allowing him to obtain some of the documents that he eventually leaked
WASHINGOTN DC - AT&T reportedly has a contract with the CIA to provide the agency with data on certain phone calls. Citing information from unnamed government officials, The New York Times said that AT&T receives more than $10 million a year from the Central Intelligence Agency in exchange for providing customer phone records used to
GRAND RAPIDS - The West Michigan Purchasing Managers index posted strong growth in October, lead by the growing in new orders. The survey, compiled by Brian G. Long, director of Supply Management Research in the Seidman College of Business at Grand Valley State University, showed the following results: The index of business improvement, called new
DETROIT - The new Invest Again campaign is driven by scientists and entrepreneurs to protect and promote increased federal funding for the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. The campaign will put scientists front and center in national media to explain the most important issues facing our nation, and how to move the United