LANSING - Senate Republicans coalesced Friday around Sen. Randy Richardville of Monroe as their choice for majority leader for the 2011-14 Senate term with Sen.-elect John Proos of St. Joseph dropping out of the race. The Senate GOP will elect its leaders for the upcoming term Tuesday, but any remaining drama will likely involve the
GRAND RAPIDS ? Supercenter chain Meijer announced Thursday it installed an electric vehicle charging station at its Warren store, and plans to install them at stores in Allen Park and Holland. Each store will receive two charging stations which can be used by Meijer customers at no cost. "This is a very exciting step for
ANN ARBOR - Merit Network Inc. announced it is hosting "Data Center Infrastructure Management" as its first online learning class November 16-18. This is the first time the national education community will have the ability to attend a Merit Professional Learning course online. Andy Rosenzweig, manager of professional learning at Merit, is pleased that Merit
FRAMINGHAM - The world smartphone market continues to explode. For the first three quarters of this year, vendors shipped more than 200 million units, up two-thirds from the 119.6 million units shipped during the first three quarters of 2009. According to the International Data Corporation Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped a total of
NEW YORK - Sprint Nextel Corp. is excluding Chinese telecommunications-equipment makers Huawei Technologies Ltd. and ZTE Corp. from a contract worth billions of dollars largely because of national security concerns in Washington, people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal. The Defense Department and some U.S. lawmakers have been increasingly concerned about the
TROY - The public can learn web development design and techniques at a free monthly meeting of the Walsh College Open Source Community on Saturday, Nov. 13, at the Troy Campus in Room 199. Breakfast and registration will be 9:30 ? 10 a.m., and the program will run from 10 a.m. ? Noon. The Walsh
LANSING ? Gov.-elect Rick Snyder said he doesn't want to move his family from Ann Arbor to the governor?s official residence in Lansing until his youngest daughter, Kelsey, finishes high school. Snyder told the Detroit News he will instead commute to Lansing after he is sworn in Jan. 1. Kelsey is a freshman this year
DEARBORN ? We've lost the entrepreneurial spirit in Michigan, warned David Egner, president and CEO of the Hudson Weber Foundation. But with a few policy changes, Michigan could lead the nation and the world out of the current economic malaise. Egner, speaking at the TiECon Midwest Conference, one of the state?s largest entrepreneurial gatherings, said
LANSING - In a history-making gain, Michigan Republicans have declared they have won enough seats to claim the majority in the House, deposing Democrats from their majority status. The final number is unclear at this point, but Republicans were indicating they would take at least 57 seats and as many as 61. This story was
LANSING - Saying "it wasn't our time," Democratic candidate Virg Bernero has conceded defeat in the race for governor to Republican Rick Snyder. Speaking to his supporters, Bernero said he had congratulated Snyder on his victory. With 82 percent of the precincts reporting, Snyder held a 58-39 margin over Bernero. Bernero said he would always