LANSING - With three weeks left in the month, House Speaker Andy Dillon remains hopeful lawmakers will complete a budget plan in June that will both close the current year deficit and provide appropriations for the 2010-11 fiscal year. Dillon said meetings on the current-year deficit were held Tuesday and more would occur Wednesday. And
LANSING - Most of the seven candidates running for governor agree that the state should go to two-year budgets, that public employees should not be paid more than the average private sector pay, and that binding arbitration for police and firefighters should not be dropped. And four of the candidates indicated they could support a
MACKINAC ISLAND - The latest study to look at the nation's most prosperous states shows the state should spend more effort on education, especially higher education, than on taxes if it wants to promote prosperity, officials from the think tank Michigan Future said Thursday. The study, the third annual progress report prepared by the group,
MACKINAC ISLAND - A new agenda of state policies, driven by the concerns expressed by thousands of Michigan residents, and focusing on several key issues including a revised tax system, extending term limits for state politicians and changing spending priorities, is critically needed, said Phil Power, president of the Center for Michigan. In addition, Power
MACKINAC ISLAND - All seven Republican and Democratic gubernatorial candidates were on the stage, but the fight was between Attorney General Mike Cox and Ann Arbor business executive Rick Snyder as Cox accused Snyder of insider trading and Snyder made a thinly veiled reference to Cox's extramarital affair. Before hundreds of business executives during the
MACKINAC ISLAND - For Michigan and the nation to survive and thrive, policymakers and the public have to dare to confront truth, former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday, and with that be willing to embark on radical policies that will assure future prosperity. And the key goal of those changes has to be
MACKINAC ISLAND - Michigan is in crisis and to determine who is at fault, people need to look in the mirror, business leaders said at the opening function for the 2010 Detroit Regional Chamber conference. But even as the business officials, including the head of the Michigan AFL-CIO, said all persons had to accept blame
NOVI ? Michigan business people interested in attending Telematics Detroit 2010 for free can do so June 9 from 2-4:30 pm. Telematics Detroit will be held at the Rock Financial Showcase June 8-9. Over 700 attendees from companies such as Nokia, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, OnStar, Ford, Toyota, Hyundai, Honda, Kia, Delphi, Progressive Insurance, Chrysler, Cisco, AT&T,
LANSING - Although the state is waiting to see if its second application for $400 million in federal "Race to the Top" is accepted, a 2010-11 budget for the Department of Education passed Tuesday by the House includes both state and federal dollars for administration of education reforms enacted late last year. While the state
DETROIT - Lawrence Technological University is conducting a survey to identify the availability of, and gaps in, resources needed by individuals that are crucial to spur innovation, entrepreneurship and new business creation in Michigan and the Great Lakes Region. The survey deadline is June 15. Sponsored by the U.S. Commerce Department, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship