DETROIT - Comedy Central has selected Detroit as the backdrop for its upcoming series, Detroiters, a comedy series that follows the travails of two small-time advertising men who produce low-budget, off-beat commercials with an eye toward a bigger dream. Filming is scheduled to begin this summer with pre-production as early as April. The series, which
LANSING - The unemployment rate in the state has dropped, but a larger proportion of those working are under-employed, the Corporation for Enterprise Development said in its 2016 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard. The group ranked Michigan 28 among the 50 states and Washington, D.C., down from 25 in 2015. Among the key findings, some 12
LANSING - AT&T announced Monday it has made a contribution of $50,000 to support response efforts of the Community Foundation of Flint and the Flint Child Health & Development Fund. “The reports from Flint are heartbreaking and will have an impact on the people there for years to come,” said Jim Murray, President of AT&T
FERNDALE - Marge Sorge, is editor of The Detroit Regional News Hub, and the Bulldog publication that highlights Detroit stories. She joined the organization eight years ago and has worked hard with the world press to change the image of Detroit. Now the News Hub has now blossomed into a blog that features not only
FERNDALE - Rachele Downs, Vice President of Entrepreneurial Strategies for Inforum, outlines how the program she runs, called inGage, has over three years trained 55 female entrepreneurs to leverage their professional experiences to create Michigan tech start-ups. inGage is now accepting applications for the next class. To find out how you can get into the
FERNDALE - Mark Becker, is a partner at technology consultant C/D/H. In this M2 TechCast podcast, Becker discussed his company's technology successes over the past 25 years, as well as C/D/H's recent move from an office in Royal Oak to downtown Detroit, in the heart of the tech hub near the Fox Theater district. By the
FERNDALE - Michigan Science Center CEO Tonya Matthews announces the new STEMinista project to get girls interested in STEM education - Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. Less than 20 percent of women are now working in their career fields, down from roughly 40 percent a couple decades ago. Getting more girls into STEM could also
HOLLAND - In an ongoing collaborative effort to grow the entrepreneurial eco-system along the Lake Michigan shoreline, the city of Holland has submitted its SmartZone action plans to the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and Michigan Treasury Department for final review in hopes of approval by spring. Public hearings were held at both the City of
NOVI - When eagles were discovered underneath the ITC Transmission lines on Beaver Island in Clinton Iowa, the company worked quickly to install yellow-coiled bird diverters. “It reduces mortality by somewhere between 50 to 90 percent,” says Drew Becker, an eagle biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. “In situations like this, it’s all
FERNDALE - On M2 TechCast on Jan. 25 at 3 pm, Enrico Schaefer will provide a drone law update, cybersecurity experts Richard Stiennon and Dan Lohrmann will talk about the latest cyber threats, including hacktivist group Anonymous threat to attack Gov. Rick Snyder's administration over the Flint water crisis. Also on the show will be Crain’s
