DETROIT - Are patents choking out innovation or are they are necessary protection for innovation. Randy Peck, Patent Lawyer of Warner, Norcross and Judd Southfield joins the team as co-host to discuss key rulings this week in Apple/Samsung and Google. John Whitacre, Mary Kumer, and Jesse Lowe present the work of iChallenged and promote the
MACKINAC ISLAND - Insisting the state must find a way to finance at least $1.2 billion in transportation funding, Governor Rick Snyder said the 15.5 percent fuel tax Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville has called for would net the amount of revenue the state needs to help tackle the transportation issue. With the Legislature poised
MACKINAC ISLAND - Former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels told a crowd at the Detroit Regional Chamber's Mackinac Policy Conference on Thursday that regardless of a person's political affiliation, providing first rate infrastructure is a responsibility of government. In 2006, Daniels said, Indiana got lucky and the time was right to lease one of its existing
MACKINAC ISLAND - Lt. Governor Brian Calley joined some House Democrats, business groups and local officials calling for the approval of Proposal 1, the proposal that would reimburse local communities the revenues lost form the personal property tax repeal. During a press conference at the Detroit Regional Chamber's Mackinac Policy Conference, Calley said the state
LANSING ? Nearly $1.4 million in government subsidies and loans will help build a 47,000 square foot grocery store in the City of Detroit. The Michigan Strategic Fund ponied up $834,800 in Community Revitalization Program incentives, while the City of Detroit, through the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation, a $200,000 loan. Invest Detroit also provided a
EAST LANSING - The Michigan State University College of Engineering team captured 19th place ? out of a total of 49 competing teams ? at this year?s National Steel Bridge Competition held last week. The Spartan Spanners Steel Bridge team, from the college?s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, made it to the finals after
LANSING - Most Michigan voters currently favor a ballot proposal to boost the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, including for tipped workers, and oppose the idea that a legislative initiative could make that initiative likely meaningless, a poll released Tuesday found. The poll by the Lansing-firm of EPIC/MRA was released several hours before lawmakers
LANSING - Now that the Republican-led Legislature and Governor Rick Snyder have swallowed a hard pill and enacted a minimum wage increase they preferred not to pursue, the big question Tuesday evening at the Capitol is whether doing so would assure Democratic support for a major increase in transportation funding. The early answer from the
LANSING - Michigan's minimum wage workers will see the first of several wage increases starting September 1 following the enactment Tuesday of a bipartisan deal to bring the state's minimum wage to $9.25 per hour by 2018 and, for the first time, tie the rate to inflation going forward. Not long after 8 p.m., Governor
MASON - The 2014 Michigan Energy Fair will be held on June 27-28 at the Ingham County Fairgrounds in Mason. The 2014 Fair will be the 14th statewide energy fair sponsored by GLREA. The Fair is the biggest and longest running energy event in Michigan and provides a unique opportunity to reach out to individuals