ANN ARBOR - Register for the GLEQ Business Plan Competition by 5 p.m. on Friday, March 5, and be matched with a business coach, receive feedback from venture investors, and compete for cash prizes up to $25,000 and possibly win the new $100,000 SmartZone Award. Michigan-based entrepreneurs are encouraged to participate. Join the GLEQ competition
LANSING - University funding may have been spared the axe in Gov. Jennifer Granholm's 2010-11 proposed budget, but student financial aid was not, and that caused several members of the House Appropriations Higher Education Subcommittee to worry about the ability of the state to pull itself out of its economic malaise. One subcommittee member, Rep.
LANSING - Despite hopes that the national economy is beginning to turn around, states anticipate total budget gaps of nearly $54 billion that will have to be closed in the 2010-11 fiscal year, according to a survey released by the National Governors Association and the National Association of State Budget Officers. That will come after
WASHINGTON DC - Trying to revive languishing health-care legislation, the White House proposed Monday that a tax on high-end health plans be delayed for all workers, not just those in unions, and suggested new taxes to help make up for the lost revenue. President Barack Obama will carry the proposal, an attempt to bridge differences
GRAND RAPIDS - Michigan cannot repair itself from its new ranking as a poor state without more students attending and graduating college, the president of Grand Valley State University told the Senate Appropriations Higher Education Subcommittee on Friday, but it cannot do that if the state continues to impose a tax on students and their
GRAND RAPIDS - Technologist Keith Brophy, a vice president at RCM Technologies Enterprise Integration Division, once again looked into his crystal ball to make his annual predictions of what tech trends will likely prevail in the years to come ? the eleventh straight year he has provided his "geeky" outlook. Before a packed house on
LANSING - While criticism has rained down on Gov. Jennifer Granholm's proposed 2010-11 budget, and its call to expand sales taxes to services, she questioned on Thursday whether legislators could come up with the votes needed for a cuts-only budget. But in talking to reporters after an event at the Capitol, Granholm still said there
ANSING - Community college officials said Thursday they understand that the state has no additional money for them, but they said they should be allowed to manage those cuts or freezes and not be told by the state what to cut. College officials took aim at the Senate Republican plan to cut all public employee
EAST LANSING - After two years of economic woes, Michigan citizens appear to be seeing new glimmers of hope in Michigan State University's latest State of the State Survey. "The situation is still grim, but there are hopeful signs," said MSU Economist Charles Ballard, who directs the quarterly telephone survey. A total of 991 interviews
GRAND RAPIDS - Van Andel Research Institute researchers have found a way to reverse resistance to sunitinib, a treatment that is currently the first line of defense against clear cell renal cell carcinoma, a deadly form of kidney cancer. Most patients who show a positive response to sunitinib develop a resistance to the drug after