GRAND RAPIDS - A statewide organization of economic development leaders is sounding alarms following Ford Motor Co.’s recent announcement to venture outside of its home state to make a historic investment in electric vehicles. Ford announced this week that it — along with partner SK Innovation Co. — will invest $11.4 billion and create 11,000 jobs in Tennessee and
GRAND RAPIDS - Statewide legislation introduced this month hopes to resolve a years-long dispute between power providers and local governments over the taxable value of wind turbines and how much revenue is directed to local taxing units. House Bill 5326 — introduced on Sept. 22 and sponsored by state Rep. Pat Outman, R-Six Lakes — mirrors
DEARBORN - Ford Motor Co. announced plans for four massive new plants and 10,800 jobs in Kentucky and Tennessee devoted to an all-electric future and invest $7 billion as part of an $11.4 billion partnership with battery maker SK Innovation of South Koreato help inoculate the carmaker from supply chain pressures that have crippled the
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DETROIT - Next Gen Foods has named former Tesla and Impossible Foods executive Rachel Konrad as its first independent board member. Konrad grew up in Grosse Pointe and spent five years working for the Detroit Free Press in the 1990s. "We can't solve our planet's climate and extinction crises without radical changes to the food system --
HOWELL—An “automotive country club” is being developed on 270 acres in Howell, in an area bounded by I-96, Lucy Road, Grand River Avenue, and Michigan Avenue. Developers Motorsports Gateway LLC say the complex will offer private garage condominiums and other amenities, along with an exclusive driving circuit where motorsports enthusiasts can push their cars to
DETROIT - One of the best things about a career in nursing is that nursing is always changing and evolving. There are lots of career opportunities coming up every day, with different and varied patient needs calling for specialized nurses with specialized skills. If you are already practicing and making a difference in patient’s lives,
LANSING - The time is quickly approaching for telephone users in Michigan’s 616, 810, 906, and 989 area codes to include an area code with every phone call — known as 10-digit dialing — in preparation for the rollout of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. In just one month, beginning Oct. 24, all phone customers with numbers in
BOSTON - The melting of polar ice is not only shifting the levels of our oceans, it is changing the planet Earth itself. Newly minted Ph.D. Sophie Coulson and her colleagues explained in a recent paper in Geophysical Research Letters that, as glacial ice from Greenland, Antarctica, and the Arctic Islands melts, Earth’s crust beneath these
CORVALIS, Ore. - Over the next three years, Oregon State University researchers will be tackling one of the biggest technological challenges of our time — removing climate change-causing carbon from the atmosphere. “We’re designing technologies, or chemistry in my case, that will capture carbon dioxide just out of ambient air,” said OSU chemist May Nyman.
