LANSING - The Commission of Agriculture and Rural Development approved Wednesday the standards farms have to meet to be in the Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance Program and the process for measuring whether they met those standards. The commission has only been required to approve the standards since March when the MAEAP became statutory, but they
LANSING - An advertising blitz this summer put on by the owners of the Ambassador Bridge, which hammers the Michigan Legislature on the New International Trade Crossing, is clearly leaving senators on the front lines eager for both more factual detail on SB 410 and SB 411 and a resolution to the issue soon. But
FERNDALE - Livio Radio, a manufacturer and developer of car Internet radio products and services, Tuesday announced the roll out of its Bluetooth Internet Radio Car Kit. ?The Kit,? previewed at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, is a plug-and-play gadget that brings Internet radio and music from your iPod or iPhone
ANN ARBOR ? Ann Arbor SPARK has received its first repayment of a Michigan Microloan. Akervall Technologies, makers of the Protech Dent mouth guard, repaid its $15,000 microloan in just 15 months, nine months before it was due. ?Akervall Technologies is the perfect example of how the microloan funding is suppose to work,? said Skip
ALPENA - Verizon Wireless has completed its $850,000 upgrade of 450 antennas on all of its cell sites between the Saginaw Bay north to the Mackinaw Bridge and east of Interstate 75 to Lake Huron, producing gains of up to one mile. The last tower to receive new equipment is in Roscommon, where a nest
NOVI - The City of Novi is hosting on Sept. 24 its Green Street project, which provides local businesses and organizations the opportunity to showcase their green products and services. Event highlights include City Open House (including representatives from every department), Police Department Open House, Fire Department Demonstrations, Kids? Fun Zone, and Green Street. Each
ANN ARBOR - HookLogic announced that Bain Capital Ventures has pumped $9.5 million into the e-commerce media company to further develop its Software-as-a-Service platform and expand its business across the retail, travel and automotive sectors in North America and Europe. HookLogic is headquartered in New York. Its office in Ann Arbor is focused on developing
MIDLAND - Continuing education (CPEs) can be the key to keep you up-to-date on emerging IT security threats. However, if you don't take the time to posture your IT defense and offense (not to mention earn the credits you need), you could expose your company to attack and lose your certification. To read the rest
GRAND RAPIDS ? Less than 100 tickets are still available for the first GrrCON information security and hacking conference on Sept. 16. He expects all 500 tickets to be sold shortly. Security professionals who attend will get 12 continuing education credits. There?s also a New Horizons Computer Training Center Ethical Hacker Training Discount. Tickets cost
LANSING - If Governor Rick Snyder and the Legislature are going to repeal the personal property tax, then the replacement revenue should be constitutionally guaranteed, a wide array of groups representing local governments and schools said Thursday. The tax on business equipment, which raises $1.2 billion, largely goes directly to municipalities and counties with some