LANSING - The Save Our Students, Schools and State Coalition is looking for caps on what districts have to pay toward health care and retirement and automatic renewal of the 18-mill local school tax as ways to keep districts out of deficits in the coming years. But the state also needs to step up and
WASHINGTON DC - On Tuesday, the US will undergo a simulated cyberattack to help policymakers decide how well the country would cope. The cyberattack simulation, called Cyber Shockwave, was created by Michael Hayden, a former CIA director general, and the National Security Preparedness Group of the Bipartisan Policy Center, which is a three-year-old nonprofit organization
DETROIT - You may be sick and tired of hearing about all these recalls at Toyota, but here's another one. The company is voluntarily calling back some 8,000 Tacoma pickups. A small number of 2010 models with four-wheel drive may have tiny cracks on part of the front driveshaft that could cause the shaft to
LANSING - Pure Michigan ads depict vast lake scenes, woods afire in autumnal colors, serene winter landscapes, and have won awards and praise for helping restart Michigan's tourism industry during one of its worst economic crisis. Yet, there is a small number of critics who charge the ads' beauty belie a false government premise. Led
LANSING - Economists have been hedging about the timing of Michigan's economic comeback, but it will be this year, said Michigan Economic Development Corporation CEO Greg Main in a recent interview with Gongwer News Service. At the most recent revenue estimating conference, and at several prior conferences, economists have indicated that Michigan employment should begin
LANSING ? Dan Lohrmann, chief technology officer for the State of Michigan, and Director of Infrastructure Services, says the state is rapidly moving towards a cloud computing infrastructure to store, and retrieve, most state records. To listen, click on MITechNews.JenesysGroup.Com a>>
KALAMAZOO - Don't miss the Great Lakes 2010 InfraGard Conference to be held at The Fetzer Center in Kalamazoo on March 10. As an added bonus, you earn six CPEs for attending this event. "Securing the Next Decade: Great Lakes 2010 InfraGard Conference" Date: Wednesday March 10th, 2010 Time: 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM (breakfast
WARREN - Exceptional women business leaders will be honored by the Michigan Business and Professional Association at the 14th annual Women and Leadership in the Workplace Conference and Distinguished Service Awards Brunch. The event will take place on March 4 at the Fairlane Club in Dearborn from 7:30 a.m. until noon. Marla Drutz, from WDIV
BIRMINGHAM - Last month, I related communications I had with The Jester, an individual who has decided to express his outrage at Jihadist organizations by systematically taking down their web sites. A week later, we learned that engineers at Google had been engaging in their own form of cyber vigilantism by hacking into a command
BIRMINGHAM - I had an interesting demonstration in January from a hacker who goes by the handle "The Jester" or in so-called l33t speak, th3j35t3r which is his Twitter ID. Since January 1, The Jester has been systematically wreaking havoc with several websites he associates with Al Quiada and Jihadists via a Denial of Service