LANSING - The flooding that struck the metro Detroit region last week could provide a chance for supporters of a sales tax increase for road and infrastructure funding to push for a vote on the issue, an official with the Michigan Association of Counties said Monday. The association has backed an increase in the state's
TROY - The US Army last week signed a three-year contract renewal of up to $10 million for the Alley to study military equipment for which components or materials are limited or unavailable, as well as to reverse-engineer and create technical specifications for manufacturers to build replacements. The Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center
LANSING - Michigan has had various controls in place for decades to reduce the nutrient loading that caused a recent algae bloom in Lake Erie, but is now asking for federal assistance in taking the next steps. The requests, made at a meeting with federal officials Wednesday and announced Thursday, was for a national standard
LANSING - A Michigan Senate work group assembled after the chamber could not reach an agreement on how best to fund infrastructure met on Thursday and reviewed some 48 bills related to the subject, Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville said, and will likely address requests for proposals and the bidding process in the fall. "Some
NOVI ? If you?re a senior level business professional, particularly in finance, with 25 years or more of experience, then Patina Solutions wants to hear from you. Patina, a national professional services consulting company, has come to metropolitan Detroit. Managing Partner Jennifer Johnson said Patina is hired by companies that need specific professional services on
DETROIT ? Jim Hayes joined the Sports Illustrated Detroit office in 1967 and then the native New Yorker spent the next decade falling in love with the Motor City. Hayes, most recently the publisher of Fortune, has taken on a new job in his new home ? co-directing the Detroit Homecoming, an attempt to recruit
BIRMINGHAM - We all knew it was coming. As more and more networks are created and the IP address space is subdivided more and more the global routing table that backbone routers have to store in memory grow. Many older routers only have 512K of memory. If the size of the table exceeds that, the
BIRMINGHAM - This is an update to the article about identifying LinkedIn scammers when they request a connection. In that article we listed six ways to identify fake accounts. 1.Look at that URL. If it indicates that this is a new account (anything over 300 million right now) be very suspicious. Other than your kids
GRAND RAPIDS ? Veteran journalist Rod Kackley said after decades of writing straight news copy, or reading it on the radio, he was ready to write something fun. Now he has, publishing the second of three books of fiction centered on his imaginary town of St. Isidore, where unusual happenings ? read kidnappings and suicides
SOUTHFIELD - Warner Norcross & Judd LLP Partner Dennis J. Donohue has been named chair of the Mining and Mineral Extraction Committee of the American Bar Association Section on Environment, Energy and Resources. An experienced environmental law attorney, Donohue will serve a one-year term leading the committee, which provides a forum for research, study and