WASHINGTON DC. - Building new wind farms in the U.S has added $13 billion a year on average to the American economy over the past five years. According to information released today by the American Wind Energy Association - more money each year than the annual revenue generated by Major League Baseball. “By building new
FERNDALE - The Travel Michigan decision to hire a Florida marketing company to rebuild the Pure Michigan website in a lucrative $400,000 contract has the Michigan web development community up in arms. On Monday, Feb. 29, Travel Michigan Spokesman Michelle Grinnell will appear on M2 (Squared) TechCast to explain the reasoning. Grinnell joins the show,
LANSING - Members of environmental and conservation groups on Thursday called for Governor Rick Snyder to appoint a permanent Department of Environmental Quality director who has environmental and public health expertise to shake up the "culture of complacency" at the department, they said. "The department is charged with protecting our state from hazards to human
LANSING - The Flint water crisis continues to roil the administration of Governor Rick Snyder with a stunning shake-up Thursday in his communications staff as he reassigned Communications Director Meegan Holland and Press Secretary Dave Murray, who were less than three months into their jobs, and named Ari Adler as his new communications director. One
HOUGHTON - David Brule Sr., an alumnus and longtime supporter of Michigan Technological University, donated $250,000 to support student scholarships in electrical engineering. Scholarships totaling $50,000 will be awarded each year for five years. The scholarships are designed to promote the study of electrical power engineering. Recipients of these scholarships will be designated as Systems
EAST LANSING - Michigan State University’s ability to advance the fields of chemical engineering and materials science will be enhanced with a real estate gift appraised at $1.725 million which will subsequently be sold to support the College of Engineering. An endowed faculty position and scholarship will be created through the gift from Craig A.
ZEELAND - Product development and business consultant Disher Corp. plans to invest more than $1.4 million and create at least 42 jobs at its Ann Arbor and Zeeland offices after getting a $200,000 grant from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. Since 2000, Disher has helped hundreds of small and large companies and inventors successfully discover,
CUPERTINO, Ca. - Apple engineers are working on new security measures that would prevent an iPhone from being hacked using the methods at the heart of the company's fight with the US government, The New York Times reported Wednesday. It wasn't immediately apparent when such new measures might be made available to consumers. Apple didn't
WASHINGTON DC - As Apple battles with the Justice Department over creating a backdoor into a terrorist's iPhone, two congressmen said Wednesday they’ll introduce a bill in Congress that seeks to form a commission that will address issues on digital security reflected in the Apple case. Speaking at a forum at the Bipartisan Policy Center
LANSING - The Flint water crisis galvanized Democrats in the Michigan House and Senate joined on Wednesday to discuss legislation they plan to introduce that would restore Department of Environmental Quality citizen oversight commissions, which were eliminated in 1991 by executive order by then-Republican Governor John Engler. The Democrats said at a press conference that
