DETROIT - DTE Energy received approval from the Detroit City Council Tuesday to develop one of the largest urban solar power arrays in the country on a 10-acre vacant parcel of land in Detroit at the former O'Shea Park, near Interstate 96 and Greenfield Road. The project will generate more than $1 million in tax revenue
DETROIT - The latest Comerica Bank’s Michigan Activity Index shows the state’s economy momentum, on the rise since February 2015, is starting to decline. The Index declined in January, falling 1.2 percentage points to a level of 126.5 from 127.6 in December. But the good news is January’s reading is 52 points, or 71 percent,
DETROIT - Online entries for the prestigious Association for Women in Communications Clarion Awards - that recognize through the communications industry as achievements of excellence and professionalism - will be accepted until April 11. Sponsored by the AWC national organization, the awards are open to any individual or organization in the communications field. Clarions encompass more
STERLING HEIGHTS - Rave Computer recently introduced two new workstations in the Rave Mobilebeast line that allows Rave’s customers to tackle real-time photo-realistic product rendering, 4- to 6-kb video creation, content deployment, complex visualizations, and super high-resolution displays. The Rave Mobilebeast comes in two variations - Senior and Ultimate. Both are armed with Intel Xeon
ANN ARBOR - More than 700 miles of shoreline in lakes Huron and Michigan are potentially vulnerable to oil spills if a 63-year old pipeline beneath the Straits of Mackinac ruptures, according to a new University of Michigan computer-modeling study released Thursday. Enbridge Line 5 pipeline moves up to 20 million gallons of light crude
FERNDALE - Long-time tech entrepreneur Ron Hesse, founder of GlobalAutoIndustry.Com, started his international business 19 years ago. Since then he’s added GlobalBusinessProfessor.Com, for non-auto folks who want to learn how to do international business, and now has the biggest auto-focused LinkedIn Group - some 86,000 members strong. Hesse also publishes six total eNewsletters covering different
FERNDALE - Open Systems Technology Marketing Director Michael Lomonaco says there have been great changes on the profitability side of IT over the past couple of years. How products are used is vastly different, he said. Everything is coming from the cloud, meaning terms like “Infrastructure As A Service.” Who is driving all this consumption?
FERNDALE - Professor Donald Carpenter, from Lawrence Technological University, was at the White House water summit last week to detail his work on storm-water runoff. Carpenter, a life-long outdoors enthusiast, realized that the only way to clean up the state’s lakes, streams and rivers is to deal with the run off from the urban and
WASHINGTON DC - U.S. wind farms have reduced carbon dioxide emissions equal to that from 28 million cars, or more than six percent of total air pollutants from U.S. electricity generation last year, a new report contends. Wind power displaces generation from power plants using traditional fuel sources, and thus reduces greenhouse gas emissions and
GRAND RAPIDS - IRS-certified tax preparers and accounting students from Davenport University, Aquinas College, Grand Rapids Community College and Cornerstone University will be joined by community volunteers to provide free tax preparation services for annual household incomes of $58,000 on April 14 - 16 and 18 in Grand Rapids. Volunteers are providing assistance in conjunction
