ANN ARBOR - The artificial intelligence boom has a physical footprint — and it’s far larger than most people realize. Behind every AI model and cloud service are massive data centers operating 24/7, consuming enormous amounts of electricity. Once invisible to consumers, these facilities are now reshaping power grids, utility planning, and political debates nationwide.
ANN ARBOR - In Michigan, the auto industry doesn’t just build vehicles — it builds livelihoods. Assembly plants, suppliers, dealers, logistics firms and engineering centers all depend on one fundamental reality: consumers have to be able to afford what gets built. That assumption is now under pressure. As new-vehicle prices push toward — and increasingly
ANN ARBOR - A proposed $1.2 billion high-performance computing facility backed by the University of Michigan and Los Alamos National Laboratory has become the latest flashpoint in Michigan’s escalating backlash against data centers — a debate now centered as much on electric rates as on land use or environmental risk. The project, planned for Ypsilanti
ANN ARBOR - When voters approve legal cannabis, the promise is usually straightforward: tax the industry and return the revenue to communities. In practice, it’s rarely that simple. Across the country, states have struggled to turn cannabis tax collections into timely funding for cities, counties, and public services. Ohio’s recent experience is just one example
DETROIT - Something is broken in tech sales. Most people inside the system feel it. Sales teams are busy, but pipelines aren’t moving. CRMs are full, but revenue growth is flat. Marketing automation keeps firing, yet the leads don’t convert. It’s exhausting. And expensive. The problem isn’t effort. It’s that the way technology companies sell
COLUMBUS - Ohio cannabis advocates are renewing their push to put the state’s marijuana laws back before voters — this time aiming squarely at Senate Bill 56, the sweeping legislative overhaul that rewrote large portions of the adult-use cannabis framework Ohioans approved at the ballot box just two years ago. The campaign, led by Ohio-based
DETROIT - Michigan’s auto industry is navigating one of its most complex transitions in decades — and recent policy shifts on both sides of the border are accelerating the pressure. As Canada moves to sharply reduce tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, Detroit’s legacy automakers are slowing EV expansion, pivoting toward hybrids, and reassessing long-term capital
WASHINGTON DC — The clock is ticking on the nation’s most important retirement program, and experts warn that continued political inaction could soon force automatic benefit cuts for millions of Americans — including retirees, disabled workers, and future beneficiaries now in the workforce. According to projections from the Social Security Administration, the retirement trust fund
DETROIT — Michigan helped build the industries that built America. Now, as those industries undergo the most significant transformation in generations, the state is moving to ensure workers, businesses and communities are prepared to adapt—and compete—in a rapidly changing global economy. At the Detroit Auto Show, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Community & Worker Economic
ANN ARBOR - As the United States heads into the 2026 election year, tariffs are quietly reshaping the political landscape — not through speeches about trade deficits, but through everyday prices. New economic research shows tariffs function less as a punishment on foreign competitors and more as a hidden tax on Americans, with disproportionate effects
