LANSING - A national trucking publication has ranked Michigan's roads the second worst in the nation. Michigan finished behind Pennsylvania for the distinction of having the roads ranked worst in the nation by Overdrive Magazine. New York state and California tied for third worst. On the other end of the rankings, the magazine ranked Florida
LANSING - Michigan was a long way out of the top 16 in its application for federal "Race to the Top" grant funds, and the dispute between the Michigan Education Association and Department of Education over the document and the plan behind it appears to have been a primary reason for that poor showing. While
ANN ARBOR ? If you want to participate in the May Ann Arbor SPARK Entrepreneur Boot Camp, you have to apply by April 1. If you?re accepted, you'll spend two days and evenings learning how to identify critical issues for your business plan. Entrepreneur Boot Camp is an intensive and instructive way to gain critical
GRAND RAPIDS - Grand Rapids Community College created Tuesday the first American training center for a top European turbine safety program. College leaders signed a deal with companies based in the United Kingdom and Spain, creating a center training employees to work on off- and on-shore wind energy machinery, The Grand Rapids Press reported. The
LANSING - The Michigan Senate made a major change Thursday to legislation that would ban motorists from texting while driving as they made the violation a primary offense, allowing police to ticket drivers for texting without having to first pull them over for committing another infraction. What made the move so surprising is that the
LANSING ? If you're a business executive that wants to compete in the second round of the Emerging 200 Initiative developed by the Small Business Administration, you need to apply by close of business March 31. Last year, 16 Detroit-based small businesses successfully completed this in-depth training program for senior executives. Graduates of the program
NEW YORK - In the basement of the HarperCollins building in midtown Manhattan, headquarters of Global Rainmakers, a group of physicists and computer engineers are hunting identity thieves. Their weapon: an agile and inexpensive iris scanner that can identify people at a glance with a nearly zero margin of error. Hector Hoyos, Global Rainmakers' founder,
SPRING LAKE - Integrated logistics solutions provider TGW has hired Kevin Thuet to the newly created position of Director of Systems Development. In this role, Thuet will be responsible TGW?s Systems Development efforts. Thuet has designed over 300 different Distribution and Manufacturing facilities worldwide for such companies as Nike, Motorola, USPS, Medtronic, Vans, HP, Excel
GRAND RAPIDS - More than 500 students interested in entrepreneurship learned from some of the country's top young entrepreneurs about what drives and motivates entrepreneurs, and how they can take their own ideas and turn them into business opportunities during a half-day, high-energy conference March 30 at Grand Valley State University. GVSU's Center for Entrepreneurship
ROYAL OAK - RTT USA has updated its RTT DeltaGen 9.5 3D visualization package with a range of new functions allowing nearly all visualization tasks to be carried out with just one application, resulting in cost and time efficiency. The software also include a product data management connection. RTT DeltaGen 9.5 features unique and sophisticated