EAST LANSING - Join the Michigan Usability Professional Association Feb. 23 in East Lansing to hear former Michigan UPA president and UX professional Michael Beasley speak on how to find the right things to measure with web analytics. This presentation will be grounded in real-world examples. It is geared toward people familiar with analytics, but
CLARKSTON - Join Plex Systems and friends on March 5, from 6-10 p.m. at the Hamlin Pub in Clarkston for a Beer Tasting & Charity Auction. Guided by Rex Halfpenny, a national beer judge, the event benefits Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan. To attend, please register by Feb. 23. Your $30 registration fee includes dinner and
LANSING - Following the governor's rollout of his fiscal year 2012-13 budget, members of the House Appropriations School Aid Subcommittee received a more in-depth briefing of just how the money would be spent, including a change to the awarding of best practice funds. According to a House Fiscal Agency analysis, the performance-based funding component totals
DETROIT - It is "fundamentally wrong" that the state pays substantially more to house prisoners than it does to educate college students, executives with Business Leaders for Michigan said Wednesday, and said the state is more to blame for higher tuition costs because of the cuts it has made to higher education funding. It is
LANSING - Communities currently hosting wind farms asked the Michigan House Tax Policy Committee to support legislation that would provide them more certainty of the revenue they will see from the facilities, but many said they would be happy with direction to the Tax Commission to change its depreciation tables back. The committee took testimony
LANSING - More than 140 corn growers, agricultural industry leaders, legislators and aides gathered to discuss corn-related issues, legislation and the future of the industry at the 2012 Michigan Corn Growers Association Annual Meeting. At the meeting, corn growers heard presentations from the Governor?s office, received reports from state House and Senate leadership, participated in
WASHINGTON DC - Whether the bailout of General Motors and Chrysler Corporation was proper was back in the headlights of Michigan politics as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney charged the bailout was an example of "crony capitalism," but top Democrats, including former Governor Jennifer Granholm, said Romney was stabbing the state in the back. All
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder proposed a major overhaul of the capital outlay process and recommended a 3-percent increase to public universities operations. Snyder said the 18 projects in the pipeline, split between universities and community colleges, are recommended to still go ahead, at a cost of $613 million. He said his proposed new system
ANN ARBOR - Michigan Business Incubator Association will be announcing the winners of its Incubator Awards at the MBIA Annual Conference in Grand Rapids on April 18. The awards will recognize one business incubation program and one client company that have made important industry contributions in Michigan through their products, services and programs. Winners of
YPSILANTI - Integrated Sensing Systems and the University of Michigan announced that they have received a $1.5 million National Institute of Health grant to develop a wireless, implantable pressure sensor for congenital heart disease. ?This pressure sensing implant has the potential to greatly improve the care we provide to our most complex patients and will