TROY - Corporate professionals and college students are invited to learn about ways to advance their careers from high-profile and accomplished workshop leaders and panelists hosted Sept. 26 by the Michigan Council of Women in Technology. The half-day event will be at the Ramada Plaza Hotel (formerly Troy Hilton). This year, the MCWT Technology Career
BATTLE CREEK - The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has made a $1.2 million grant to fund the statewide expansion of Intern In Michigan, a program run on the east side of the state by the Detroit Regional Chamber and the West Michigan Strategic Alliance. The grant is good through 2012. The program, launched in April, connects
LANSING - Two more of the state's proposed coal-fired power plants may have been nixed Tuesday by reports from the Public Service Commission staff that neither Consumers Energy nor Wolverine Power Supply Cooperative had proven the need for them. Consumers has applied for a new 930 megawatt plant at its Karn-Weadock Generating Station in Hampton
LANSING - Legislation that would provide stronger penalties for identity theft is expected to be queued up for votes in the House this week as lawmakers in both chambers return for four scheduled weeks of session. The 12-bill package is sponsored by members of both parties and includes HB 4325 , HB 4326 , HB
LANSING - Gov. Jennifer Granholm made public her proposed solution to the 2009-10 and 2010-11 budgets on Tuesday, calling for a 1-cent per bottle tax on bottled water, extending the sales tax to tickets for live entertainment and a 25-cent per pack increase in the cigarette tax. Granholm's much-anticipated proposal, coming after she took weeks
LANSING �?? Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox offered a 92-point blueprint Tuesday on how he would improve Michigan should he win the 2010 governor's race, saying he would cut the income and business taxes while also wrangling savings from government employee benefits. Cox, who is seeking the Republican gubernatorial nomination amid a crowded field, said
LANSING - Wages, measured in real terms, have dropped for all Michigan workers during the last three decades, but for black workers wages have fallen by nearly 25 percent. That is the conclusion of a report issued for the Labor Day weekend by the Michigan League for Human Services. The report also said that while
LANSING ? Michigan House Democrats huddled for about five hours Wednesday, receiving a detailed update about where the budget stands, how much revenue certain tax increases could raise and discussing their options, but caucus leaders did not present a concrete plan. Meeting at the Radisson Hotel Lansing behind closed doors, sources, speaking on condition of
LANSING - A bill to provide up to $100 million in tax credits to firms that have offered to build an advanced battery and solar energy complex on the site of the shuttered Ford Motor Company Wixom plant won easy approval Wednesday from the Michigan House. With the 90-17 vote, HB 5275 goes to the
PARIS - The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Thursday said the global economy is emerging from its worst slump since Second World War faster than it had forecast only three months ago. In a twice-yearly update to its main economic forecasts, the OECD said the drag on growth from the drawdown on inventories appears