LANSING - The Michigan Public Service Commission Monday became the first state energy agency in the nation to make energy efficiency improvements to its new office location using Property Assessed Clean Energy financing. ?Michigan state government is committed to eliminating energy waste, and is able to use a variety of tools to achieve that goal,?
LANSING - Though the exact costs are still unclear, Michigan growers and processors, and some non-agricultural industries, sending their products to Canada will face some additional costs in the coming year, Agriculture and Rural Development Director Jamie Clover Adams told the Commission of Agriculture and Rural Development at its meeting Wednesday. Canada is planning retaliatory
LANSING - Legislation that would make permanent the Michigan film incentive program, simplify the incentives and make taxable some of the post-release income generated by the productions cleared the House Commerce Committee on Wednesday. The committee made no major changes to the legislation, SB 1103 , a top priority of Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville
ROCHESTER - Use of social media can have legal consequences, both personally and professionally. Is your brand being ?hijacked? on social media? Can an employee be fired because of a social media post? What does your favorite social media platform do with your personal information? Could social media be used as an alibi? Kathy Ossian
DEARBORN - The ninth annual Michigan Council for Women in Technology annual black-tie Signature Gala November 8 raised more than $300,000 and also inaugurated a new president for the MCWT. The annual event was hosted by Ford Motor Company to raise funds for the MCWT Foundation serving women in technology through all stages of education
LANSING - Long-stymied efforts to increase funding for Michigan's battered roads won a momentous victory Thursday in the Senate with the passage of legislation that hopes to eventually raise more than $1 billion through doubling the gasoline tax. It took several attempts on an updated version of the bill it last attempted to pass in
WASHINGTON DC - In the wake of President Obama's call for the Federal Communications Commission to adopt tighter regulations to preserve a free and open Internet, the agency's chairman is reportedly considering a different tack. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said during a meeting Monday with executives from major Internet companies that he was considering an
WASHINGTON DC - Republicans in Congress have all but killed off the Marketplace Fairness Act, a long-debated bill that calls for online retailers to collect sales tax in the same way as brick-and-mortar stores. The news is a victory for e-Bay and small online retailers, but a defeat for Wal-Mart and traditional retailers who say
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LANSING ? Dan Lohrmann, the long-time Michigan Chief Information Security Officer, has spent the past several months accumulating to his new role in the private sector where he is Chief Strategist and Chief Security Officer at Security Mentor, which is developing executive training for business executives. Lohrmann said while still working at the State he