LANSING - The House voted to accept a community college budget that freezes funding, making that appropriation the first conference report of the 2009-10 fiscal year to pass either chamber. The chamber also transferred $42 Million from the 21st Century Jobs Fund to the General Fund. The budget in HB 4435 , totaling $299 million
LANSING - Tourism business owners will descend Wednesday on Lansing to urge funding for the Pure Michigan advertising campaign on the heels of survey results showing the spots could be paying off. The Michigan Lodging and Tourism Association released a survey of its members Monday showing 72.9 percent had seen an increase in out-of-state visitors
WASHINGTON DC - The wireless industry is gearing up to fight new Net neutrality rules that the Federal Communications Commission is formulating to keep the Internet open. On Monday, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski gave a speech at the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C., outlining plans to turn the agency's principles for open Internet access into
WASHINGTON - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski on Monday outlined his plan for requiring Internet service providers to keep their networks open to legal content and external devices. The plan, which is a top priority of Internet advocates who aggressively supported President Barack Obama in his run for the White House, would put into
ANN ARBOR - The Detroit area could lose more jobs in 2009 than it has during the previous decade, but the economy could start to improve staring in 2010, two economists from the University of Michigan said Friday. That doesn't mean the region will see job growth next year, said George Fulton and Donald Grimes,
DETROIT - In today's economy, employers are confronted with a wide variety of labor, employment, employee benefits and immigration issues. Butzel Long will offer discussion and strategies for human resources managers, business owners, in-house attorneys, and anyone involved in human resources or employment issues during the firm's 22nd Annual Labor and Employment Law Forum on
LANSING - House Speaker Andy Dillon and other top House Democrats may have cut a budget deal with Senate Republicans, but rank-and-file Democratic representatives voiced growing concern Thursday against the substance of the deal and the possibility of getting enough votes to pass it. House Democrats met behind closed doors for two hours on the
LANSING - Gov. Jennifer Granholm is prepared to "assert her constitutional authority," administration sources said Thursday, and while no one would say the governor would outright veto an agreement cutting the 2009-10 general fund budget by $1.2 billion, they did say the agreement is not likely to take effect in its current form. Officials said
DETROIT- According to the Wall Street Journal, Toyota is planning a $1 billion marketing push in the fourth quarter in the American market. The strategy was formulated in part by Akio Toyoda himself, and aims to invigorate the company's sagging North American operations. $1 billion is a huge amount of money for an automaker to
SAN FRANCISCO - The study released Tuesday by the security-focused SANS Institute states that the cybersecurity community is facing an epidemic of unpatched software, particularly widely used applications like Adobe Flash, Java and Microsoft programs like Word and PowerPoint. The report, which used data that vulnerability assessment firm Qualys collected from about 100 million scans