LANSING - The percentage of Michigan residents without health insurance dropped significantly in 2014 from 2013, federal figures show. The improvement in the number of residents with insurance also came during the year that more lower-income residents could sign up for Medicaid coverage under the Healthy Michigan program. According to figures released by the National
LANSING - Sen. John Proos late Wednesday called on Attorney General Bill Schuette to open an investigation into the gas price jump that has hit Proos' region of southwest Michigan in the past several days. According to a statement by Proos (R-St. Joseph), a British Petroleum (BP) oil refinery in Indiana has reportedly experienced a
LANSING - Enbridge Energy Partners LP will sponsor Michigan Technological University's Great Lakes Research Center to provide real-time environmental monitoring of the water conditions in the Straits of Mackinac, the company announced Wednesday, as well as the Center's efforts to integrate another monitoring buoy in the Upper Great lakes Observing System. The new buoy will
LANSING - Addressing poverty and increasing funding for at-risk students as well as creating a more cohesive K-12 education system were among numerous suggestions by various interests provided to the State Board of Education on Tuesday regarding how to make Michigan a top 10 education performing state. Kevin Hollenbeck, vice president of the Upjohn Institute
DETROIT - After much hoopla, suspicious press and endless previews, Windows 10 was released into the wild on Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Lo and behold, they came, they downloaded and they installed and it was good, or at least much better than most everyone had expected. http://www.internetadvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IA-1665-Hour-1-Windows-10-Install.mp3
DETROIT - Answering Listener Questions at the Internet Advisor in hour two. Remember: The only dumb question is the one you don't ask. http://www.internetadvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IA-1664-Hour-2-Listener-Q-A-.mp3
FERNDALE - No two ways about it, episode 103 of our live weekly podcast was a lot of fun. With our guests from The Darton Groupas well as VoxVii /The Rack Show, we had no shortage of laughter, fun, and even some interesting viewpoints on the metro Detroit information technology scene, the local employment market,
WASHINGTON DC - It looks like Russian hackers made a significant breach into the Pentagon's email system. Officials tell NBC News that Russia has launched a "sophisticated cyberattack" against the unclassified email system of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The hack has forced the Pentagon to shut down the email system for almost two weeks
ANN ARBOR - Arboretum Ventures LLC is raising a new fund of $215 million, according to a form filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, what would be the largest VC fund in Michigan, Crain's Detroit reported Thursday. The previous largest was the $180 million raised in 2013 by Farmington Hills-based Beringea LLC for
LANSING - The Michigan Film Office confirmed Thursday that filming for the Paramount Pictures film "Looking for Alaska," based on the best-selling novel by acclaimed author John Green, will come to Michigan in the fall and receive a film incentive of more than $7 million. The project is projected to spend more than $21 million