DETROIT - Detroit Public Schools could lose as much as a third of its teaching staff over the next several years, but the staffing cuts are part of the district's school improvement plan, not its deficit reduction plan, officials told Gongwer News Service. The recent deficit reduction plans filed with the state call for eliminating
LANSING - For the first time since 1996, Michigan would once again ban a late-term abortion procedure under bills passed out of both the House and Senate on Wednesday. Governor John Engler declared Michigan was the first state to prohibit doctors from performing so-called "partial-birth" abortions 15 years ago, but the courts struck down the
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Google had required invitations to the service since its debut as a "project" in June. But Tuesday morning, Google opened the doors of Google+ to all. Google+ has also graduated to being a "beta" product. "We're nowhere near done, but with the improvements we've made so far, we're ready to move from
LANSING - The State of Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget has awarded a $47 million contract to Unisys to build and maintain a new child welfare services system to serve the needs of thousands of children and social workers in Michigan. Designed to meet new state and federal data quality and information-sharing requirements,
LANSING ? The Michigan Economic Development Corporation is hosting two Community Development Workshops on September 22 and September 27 in Lansing. ?These workshops are a golden opportunity for economic developers and local officials to learn about all the tools available to facilitate strong communities,? said MEDC President and CEO Michael Finney. ?Putting Michigan?s economic and
ANN ARBOR - Information technology security company Arbor Networks plans to invest $8.7 million to upgrade its Ann Arbor-based research-and-development operation, which could result in hiring 30 people this year, according to city documents obtained by Ann Arbor.Com. It's the latest sign that the Massachusetts-based tech firm is likely to maintain its 78-person Ann Arbor
DETROIT ? By October, Quicken Loans will start moving another 2,000 employees to Detroit from the suburbs, nudging downtown closer to what Quicken founder and Chairman Dan Gilbert calls the tipping point for revitalization. Gilbert told the Detroit Free Press editorial board Monday that most of those workers will move into the Chase Tower, a
DETROIT - DTE Energy is offering a new incentive and reward program for its large commercial and industrial customers that will be equivalent to taking 23,000 cars off the road. DTE Energy also announced it plans to issue Requests for Proposals to add energy efficient programs to its electric profile. DTE Energy will offer 125,000
ANN ARBOR - Customer satisfaction across three durable goods industries stalled in 2011, with the majority of companies staying almost exactly where they were in 2010, according to a report released Tuesday by the American Customer Satisfaction Index. The report covers customer satisfaction with personal computers, major appliances, and electronics (televisions and BD-DVD players). One
SAN FRANCSICO - An Italian researcher has uncovered at least a dozen security flaws in software used in utilities and other critical infrastructure systems, prompting security advisories from the U.S. government. Luigi Auriemma released information about the previously unknown vulnerabilities and proof of concept exploit code earlier this week on his Web site, CNET News.Com