ANN ARBOR - State policymakers could better coordinate with local economic developers to improve the economy by cultivating existing businesses in their communities, a new report from the University of Michigan says. The report from the Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy indicates more local jurisdictions are using "economic gardening," a new strategy to
DETROIT - Detroit Edison has issued a Request for Proposal to add more Michigan-based renewable power to the company's energy portfolio. The notice of intent to bid is due Jan. 21, 2011. The utility is seeking about 245 megawatts of renewable energy from wind, solar, hydro, biomass or landfill gas facilities that would be operating
ANN ARBOR - While the nation's economy will gain some momentum in the second half of next year, it will take until 2012 before unemployment finally begins to subside, say economists at the University of Michigan. After losing more than 8 million payroll jobs from the end of 2007 to the end of 2009?the highest
ANN ARBOR - A team of 14 autonomous robots built by University of Michigan students has won an international competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense and its Australian counterpart, officials announced in Brisbane. U-M's team of more than 20 students, mostly from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, won a $750,000 grant
ANN ARBOR - After losing nearly 850,000 jobs since 2000, the Michigan economy will gain jobs next year for the first time in more than a decade, say economists at the University of Michigan. "It is our sense that we are now approaching the turning point from negative to positive net job creation," said George
ANN ARBOR - The Great Recession may have technically ended with gross domestic product growing again, but consumer attitudes and expectations remain at such historically low levels that the current economic situation still resembles a recession, one of the nation's leading experts on consumer economic sentiment said Thursday. Unlike the 1990-91 and 2001 recessions, the
PORTAGE ? Manatron has been awarded the contracts for Iowa's Polk and Linn counties, which will use Manatron's GRM integrated property tax software and related professional services. No dollar value was announced. Through a competitive RFP process, Polk County selected Manatron. Polk, Iowa's largest county, which also includes the state?s largest city (Des Moines), serves
DEARBORN ? Mike Finney, rumored to be soon named as the next president and CEO of the Michigan Economic Development Corp., warmed up several hundred people attending Wednesday's Michigan Emerging event at the Ford Conference Center with his version of comedian David Letterman's Top 10 list. But Finney's list was focused on economic development objectives
ANN ARBOR - Government assistance to General Motors and Chrysler enabled orderly bankruptcy proceedings and led to the saving of more than 1.14 million jobs in 2009 alone, according to a new study from the Center for Automotive Research. The research also showed the bailout averted huge unemployment and welfare payments and as a result
SAN FRANCISCO - With a new survey finding that half of the people polled plan to shop online for the holidays, security company Webroot offers some tips and tricks for staying safe in cyberspace. Among the more than 2,660 consumers surveyed in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia by Webroot, 55 percent said they do