DEARBORN - On Monday, jexbo.com, a site for self-published authors, and SmallBiz America, a streaming radio channel for small businesses, announced that they are working together to help authors market and sell books online with the new channel, jexbo - Help for Self-Published Authors. "By teaming with jexbo, we can offer self-published authors a cost-effective
SAN FRANCISCO - There has been a marked increase in the amount of spam e-mails being sent from Yahoo, Gmail, and Hotmail accounts, according to analysts at Websense Security Labs. Websense said on Thursday that personalized spam e-mails had been sent from the compromised accounts to all of each user's contacts. The e-mails contain links
LANSING - A plan by Michigan Senate Republicans to create $300 million in new revenue for the current fiscal year in exchange for phasing out the surcharge on the Michigan Business Tax will add to the state's structural deficit in the long run, said Craig Thiel with the Citizens Research Council. The proposal calls for
LANSING - There will be plenty of energy to meet Michigan's needs this winter because electric use is expected to fall 4.3 percent for the year and natural gas could fall 10.1 percent, the Public Service Commission said in its annual energy appraisal released Friday. Some of the use and cost reductions are based on
LANSING - In what could prove to be a major step toward ending the final deadlock on the 2009-10 budget, Senate Republicans developed a proposal Thursday that would raise more than $300 million a year for the next two fiscal years, with the proviso that the money would then go to reducing the surcharge on
LANSING - On Thursday, Gov. Jennifer Granholm issued orders (E.O. 2009-44 and E.O. 2009-45) creating a new Department of Natural Resources and Environment to encompass the duties of the current departments of Environmental Quality and Natural Resources as well as some functions of the Department of Agriculture. Administration officials estimated the changes, which would be
LANSING - After so many years of fighting to end what he called the unfair practice of basing insurance rates on credit scores, it's about time the Supreme Court give the state the power to stop the practice that results in higher rates for many Michigan residents, said state Insurance Advocate Butch Hollowell on Wednesday
LANSING - The Michigan Senate passed bills Wednesday that would require the Department of Human Services to work with utilities to identify residents who are eligible for assistance programs. The bills (SB 553 and SB 555 ) are part of a package of bills designed to protect residents from unwarranted utility disconnection, particularly by municipal
LANSING - Despite taking the step of voting on revenue increases Tuesday, legislative Democrats and the governor said House proposals do not go far enough to restore funding for critical programs including local police and fire, college scholarships and health care for senior citizens and low-income residents. "Now is the time to stand up for
LANSING - Unions, businesses and legislators from both parties, including Democratic leaders from both chambers, called on Gov. Jennifer Granholm to step back from her decision requiring new coal-fired electric power plants to show not only that they meet emissions requirements, but that the power they produce will be required. House Speaker Andy Dillon (D-Redford