LANSING ? Business projects in Ann Arbor and Roseville were granted $1.5 million in incentives from the Michigan Strategic Fund Thursday, which will be used to leverage $5.9 million in private investment. The Michigan Economic Development Corp. said the two projects also would generate 639 new jobs in the state. ?These two innovative companies deserve
OAK PARK ? Dodge, Case IH and New Holland Agriculture have donated $400,000 in equipment to Forgotten Harvest to expand its large-scale farming through Forgotten Harvest Farms, where healthy fruits and vegetables are harvested by volunteers and delivered fresh and free of charge to agencies fighting hunger in the region. ?In three years of harvesting
EAST LANSING - Michigan State University College of Engineering and the Boeing Company have been awarded a contract worth about $4 million from the U.S. Air Force to develop new designs of sensors that will better detect cracks in the second- and third-layers in airframe structures. Lalita Udpa, professor of electrical and computer engineering in
COPEMISH ? Contractors Building Supply hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony for its solar panel assembly plant on Oct. 3 becoming the U.S. manufacturing facility for all Sonali Energees products. About 60 people attended, including Dan Scripps from the Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council, Mike Worden, President of Honor Bank and Ron Bytwerk, Mayor of Copemish
COPEMISH ? Contractors Building Supply hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony for its solar panel assembly plant on Oct. 3 becoming the U.S. manufacturing facility for all Sonali Energees products. About 60 people attended, including Dan Scripps from the Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council, Mike Worden, President of Honor Bank and Ron Bytwerk, Mayor of Copemish
LANSING - It is essential to Michigan's environment to reduce the amount of mercury being released into it, so electric utilities, particularly DTE, should drop a challenge to new federal standards, environmental groups said in a teleconference Thursday. But DTE executives said DTE cannot drop the lawsuit because it is only indirectly a party and
LANSING - The Michigan Municipal League unveiled Thursday proposals to expand the sales tax to services and increase the sales tax by 1 cent, and dedicating the new revenue to local governments. "This plan presents bold policies to help Michigan cities recover from more than $5 billion in cuts that the state Legislature and governor
DETROIT - Governor Rick Snyder mostly evaded questions during three hours of sworn testimony under questioning from attorneys representing unions trying to convince a judge to deny Snyder and Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr's efforts to let Detroit resolve its financial problems through bankruptcy. According to an unofficial transcript of the more than three-hour deposition,
LANSING - Energy supplies in Michigan will be adequate to meet anticipated demand this winter assuming a return to normal conditions, and thanks to a mild summer projected to show a decrease in natural gas and electricity usage in 2013, according to the Winter Energy Appraisal released on Wednesday by the Public Service Commission. Michigan's
LANSING - Michigan Economic Development Corporation CEO Michael Finney told a skeptical House Commerce Committee on Wednesday that last month's audit on the Michigan Strategic Fund wasn't reported correctly by the media and did not take into account a bankrupted company when calculating jobs. An audit released in September said the Michigan Strategic Fund, which