LANSING - Where students at Highland Park schools will end up for the rest of the academic year is still an open question after the Michigan House and Senate pushed through an emergency bill late Thursday afternoon. Those who show up to their classroom on Monday may not see many teachers, and if there are
LANSING - Michigan's urban areas could lead the state to a new recovery with some readjustment of the state's economic development priorities, a report commissioned by Business Leaders for Michigan said. The report, Michigan's Urban and Metropolitan Strategy, developed by Public Sector Consultants and the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, said Michigan's cities already lead
CLIMAX - Stephen Jessup, principal of the Jessup Group, is a Battle Creek native who used to travel to large cities for his healthcare accounting business. But when CTS Telecom Inc. installed high-speed optic fiber to a building in his hometown, he cut back on his travel and did more business with his clients in
AUBURN HILLS - Jim Shepherd, an Enterprise Resource Planning expert, has joined Plex Systems as vice president of strategy. In this role, Shepherd is responsible for defining strategic direction to continue the growth of Plex with manufacturers across multiple industries and markets. Frequently quoted in leading publications including Bloomberg Businessweek, The New York Times and
LANSING - Those supporting expansion of online charter schools launched an online campaign Friday to urge legislators, particularly Republicans who appear to be wavering on the issue, to vote for the bill allowing more of the schools. The National Coalition for Public School Options Michigan Chapter launched the series of single-page websites that include letters
GRAND RAPIDS - Van Andel Institute announced a statewide initiative to empower supporters in communities, schools and other organizations to increase cancer awareness and raise funds for cancer research with the launch of Purple Community. The program builds on grass roots efforts undertaken by more than 40 schools, professional teams and community organizations in West
LANSING - Communities currently hosting wind farms asked the Michigan House Tax Policy Committee to support legislation that would provide them more certainty of the revenue they will see from the facilities, but many said they would be happy with direction to the Tax Commission to change its depreciation tables back. The committee took testimony
DETROIT - It is "fundamentally wrong" that the state pays substantially more to house prisoners than it does to educate college students, executives with Business Leaders for Michigan said Wednesday, and said the state is more to blame for higher tuition costs because of the cuts it has made to higher education funding. It is
WASHINGTON DC - Whether the bailout of General Motors and Chrysler Corporation was proper was back in the headlights of Michigan politics as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney charged the bailout was an example of "crony capitalism," but top Democrats, including former Governor Jennifer Granholm, said Romney was stabbing the state in the back. All
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder proposed a major overhaul of the capital outlay process and recommended a 3-percent increase to public universities operations. Snyder said the 18 projects in the pipeline, split between universities and community colleges, are recommended to still go ahead, at a cost of $613 million. He said his proposed new system