DETROIT - A National Labor Relations Board ruling that scholarship football players at Northwestern University are ?employees? who may unionize could transform college sports and create an entirely new landscape of labor and funding challenges for school administrators. NLRB Regional Director Peter Sung Ohr said the 85 Northwestern football players who receive grant-in-aid scholarships met
DETROIT - Attorneys and clients seeking the appointment of a receiver often face the dilemma of uncertainty. The process can be riddled with questions: Will the court appoint the requested receiver? If not, will the court appoint a receiver with knowledge of, let alone specialization in, the subject matter of the receivership? Will the court
SOUTHFIELD - The Engineering Society of Detroit has named Matt Roush, former technology editor of WWJ Newsradio 950, as its new Director of Communications and Public Relations. Roush, 57, is a veteran science and technology journalist who has worked in Michigan his entire 35-year career. At ESD, Roush will support the organization?s mission to provide
MENLO PARK, Calif. ? Although mobile media has become an increasingly important channel for information sharing, roughly one in four companies (28 percent) surveyed by Robert Half Technology has no mobile technology strategy. These organizations have a little catching up to do: In the same survey, 70 percent of firms said they have implemented some
ANN ARBOR - Wayfair has selected LLamasoft as the standard application for supply chain network design and transportation route optimization throughout the company?s global enterprise. Wayfair is a U.S.-based Internet retailer offering home furnishings and d�cor from more than 12,000 brands, with just under $1 billion in revenues in 2013. Headquartered in Boston, Mass., Wayfair
SOUTHFIELD - Lawrence Technological University reported it has topped the $100 million mark in its capital campaign, and now construction is scheduled to begin in the fall on the first phase of the 125,000 square foot Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math-focused A. Alfred Taubman Engineering, Life Sciences and Architecture Complex. This complex will feature the
LANSING ? Michigan House Republicans unveiled Thursday a plan to appropriate at least $450 million in 2015 on roads, but acknowledged that some of the provisions leave the General Fund "tight," and that has some people concerned. House Speaker Jase Bolger (R-Marshall) proposed taking the portion of the sales tax that now goes to the
LANSING - If Michigan wants to stop its slide in educational performance, it needs to be sure schools are using research-based education programs and it needs to provide the funds to fully implement those programs, the Education Trust-Midwest said in a report released Thursday. The report, Stalled to Soaring: Michigan's Path to Educational Recovery, put
LANSING - The Department of Community Health announced Thursday that a flash drive containing health information on 2,595 clients of the Long Term Care Ombudsman's Office had been stolen, potentially compromising the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of some of those people. The drive and a laptop were stolen from an employee of the
SEATTLE - The Fire TV streaming box was announced at Amazon's press event in New York this morning, focusing on improving search, performance, and gaming over competitors. The new box is already available for purchase from Amazon for $99, as well as the new gaming controller accessory, the Fire Game Controller, for $39. The Fire