LANSING - With the state moving to end a 14-year policy of reimbursing community colleges for the property tax revenues they lose because of renaissance zones, college property taxes should be exempt from renaissance zones, a leading college official said Wednesday. The comments from Mike Hansen, executive director of the Michigan Community College Association, came
GRAND RAPIDS - Mindscape, an Internet marketing and web development company, has acquired Venux.net, a custom web, business application and mobile application software development company. Terms were not announced. "We've been growing by about 30 percent each year for the past five years. In early 2010, we determined the time was right to bring custom
LANSING - The prospects for a new bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor appeared to come crashing down Thursday when Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop declared it unlikely that the Senate would vote on legislation authorizing it this year. Bishop's (R-Rochester) comments come as Sen. Jud Gilbert (R-Algonac), the Transportation Committee chair, has circulated a draft
LANSING - The Department of Technology, Management and Budget will travel the remaining road of the Granholm administration with an interim director at the reins, as Director Ken Theis announced Thursday he was leaving the post effective October 1. Theis, who oversaw the combination of the departments of Information Technology and Management and Budget, has
DETROIT - Four years ago, a couple of brothers came up with the idea of creating a video online web site to play each other for money. On Sept. 15, GamerSaloon.Com launches its Madden 11 Tournament with $5000 in cash prizes up for grabs. The site has attracted some 300,000 members who have won nearly
DETROIT ? At the 2009 TiECon Conference, Mohan Yellapantula caught the entrepreneur bug and went for his dream of getting into the film business. A year later, Yellapantula and two fellow entrepreneurs are just a few weeks away from debuting the film they produced in Michigan with local talent. "At TiECon I got exposed to
NEW YORK ? Bryan Janeczko left a lucrative Wall Street job to start a celebrity food and nutrition service in New York City and now has taken all that entrepreneurial savvy he picked up along the way to create a web site that will help other entrepreneurs short cut some of his business pain. Wicked
LANSING - A spokesperson for Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder said Monday that Snyder's plan remains to seek repeal of the Michigan Business Tax and replace it with a 6 percent tax on corporate profits. The Detroit News reported Monday that Snyder had classified the 6 percent rate as a "goal" not his firm proposal.
KALAMAZOO - Change is constant is a common theme for Jeffrey Brittan, the President and CEO of StructureTec. Recognized as a Gazelle Company by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation in 2000 and one of the Michigan 50 Companies to Watch in 2009, StructureTec is continually changing. "You can't be satisfied," Brittan said. "You have to
GRAND RAPIDS - Entrepreneurship can be a tough journey, but it is never one that has to be taken alone. Small business owners Tammy Kinzel and Carol Renis will tell anyone that running a small business requires collaboration and teamwork to achieve success. After working together for a number of years, Kinzel and Renis decided