LANSING ? Lansing ISSA will host the second annual Netwars Challenge Saturday at Michigan State University. Continuing education credits and prizes, including a laptop computer and a Motorola Xoom WiFi tablet, are the door prizes. The event will first instruct users and present materials on how to exploit system vulnerabilities. Then a hands-on event will
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation is hosting a series of Community Development Workshops covering Community Assistance and Community Development Block Grant training at eight locations around the state between May and October. ?This is a golden opportunity for economic developers and local officials to learn about all the tools available to facilitate strong
LANSING - Liquid Web enhanced its reputation as an innovator in web hosting services by adding a Content Delivery Network to its already diverse palette of hosting options. Liquid Web Founder and CEO, Matthew Hill, explains the advantages content providers can unlock by utilizing CDNs: ?The technology utilized by CDNs represents the fastest and most
YPSILANTI ? When University of Michigan Business Professor David Brophy started the Michigan Growth Capital Symposium in 1980, he only figured it would run a couple of years. This week, Brophy celebrated the 30th edition of what has become the grand daddy of all American investment conferences. On May 10-11, 41 companies ?pitched? venture capital
LANSING - The most sweeping overhaul of state taxes in a generation overcame its most difficult obstacle Thursday when the Senate, despite great reluctance among several of members of the Republican majority, scrounged up the votes to pass the legislation. Two hours later, the House concurred in the Senate version of the bill, sending it
LANSING - Two environmental organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Environmental Quality, charging it violated state rules when it issued an air pollution permit for the expansion of a Holland coal-fired power plant. In the suit, the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Fund charged that the then Department of Natural
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder said the introduction of the inaugural W.K. Kellogg-Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellowship class at the Capitol on Thursday symbolized something much more important than the tax debate going on down the hall. Six of the first 92 recipients joined Snyder at a news conference. Each will receive $30,000 to pursue
ROCHESTER ? Starting Friday, the Green Living Festival will transform downtown Rochester into class rooms where upwards of 50,000 people will learn about the latest trends, products and services in clean, green and sustainable energy. The Green Living Festival is one of the planet's largest green events. It will be held in downtown Rochester, Friday,
WARREN - How can an electrical generating plant that burns coal and wastes about two-thirds of its energy possibly be considered ?green?? When that waste energy is used to heat or cool thousands of office workers and apartment dwellers who keep warm or cool by way of a district energy system. In a previous article,
DEARBORN ? When Suzie Avery, Head of the Michigan Women's Commission, and Cassandra Woods, State Director of the Office of Senator Carl Levin take the stage on May 17 for the National Association of Women Business Owners annual Public Policy Forum you can expect the questions - and most likely, the answers - to be