ANN ARBOR - The roles Sharon Matthews has fielded so far are hardly the stuff of cakewalks: high school dropout; single mom; gunshot victim. But her toughest role yet begins next month: Guinea pig. The 41-year-old Detroit resident and her 15-year-old daughter are among the 11,000 Michigan families banned from welfare, as the state of
STAMFORD, Conn. ? Media tablets, Internet of Things, Mobile-Centric Applications, In-Memory Computing, and Cloud Computing are just some of the top 10 technologies and trends that think tank Gartner Group believes will be strategic for most organizations in 2012. Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise
LANSING - On October 28, Michigan Economic Development Corporation and Holland-based Lakeshore Advantage will team up to host Pure Michigan Opportunity Lakeshore - an event designed to bring together young professionals, college students, and recent college graduates with Lakeshore area employers with more than 300 jobs to fill. In addition to the career networking opportunity,
LANSING - The Michigan legislative lifeline on a bill authorizing the New International Trade Crossing was cut Thursday when a key committee fell two votes short of reporting SB 410 to the full Senate. Like all major legislative losses, it ended with both sides pointing fingers at who was to blame. Senate Majority Leader Randy
LONDON - Concerns are mounting that a hoped for light rail line along Woodward Avenue in Detroit is in trouble, but U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, visiting Dearborn on Monday, said the federal government is all-in on the project. LaHood announced $48 million in transit projects for Michigan as part of $930 million nationally, with
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder hasn't been shy about wading into previously intractable issues, and now he's headed into one of the most infamous: regional public transit for metro Detroit with his announcement Monday of a task force on the issue. The state of the public busing system in the Detroit area has been lamented
LANSING - The money Michigan will have to commit to future economic development incentives will depend on the nature of personal property tax reform, but officials are looking to increase the initial $100 million appropriation, Doug Rothwell said Monday. In an interview with Gongwer News Service, the chair of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation's Executive
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Growth Authority Tuesday approved tax incentives for four projects expected to generate $29.3 million in new investment and up to 796 direct jobs. ?These projects will help businesses to expand in Michigan and transform blighted, contaminated or functionally obsolete properties to add jobs and diversify Michigan's economy,? said Michael A.
DETROIT - RetroSense Therapeutics announced that it has executed its exclusive, worldwide option and signed a license agreement for novel gene-therapy approaches for treating blindness developed at Wayne State University's School of Medicine. Zhuo-Hua Pan, Ph.D., professor of anatomy and cell biology in the School of Medicine, along with colleagues at Salus University in Pennsylvania,
STAMFORD, Conn. - Worldwide PC shipments totaled 91.8 million units in the third quarter of 2011, a 3.2 percent increase from the third quarter of 2010, yet lower than earlier projections of 5.1 percent by Gartner because weaker sales in Western Europe. "The inventory buildup, which slowed growth the last four quarters, mostly cleared out