TROY - Automation Alley announced Friday that the technology networking group has been awarded more than $2 million in federal funds - a portion of which will be used to study how to expand Automation Alley headquarters by 4000 square feet. Automation Alley also received funds to develop more handicapped-friendly buses with Altair Engineering and
LANSING - Michigan's sagging revenues will mean more budget cuts this year, even though the state will be using some federal stimulus funds to soften the blow of the extended recession, Gov. Jennifer Granholm said Wednesday. "We've got a drop in revenues that is breathtaking," Granholm said of revenues that were down in February by
LANSING - When the House Appropriations Community Health Subcommittee was first briefed on the governor's budget in February, officials from the department said a crisis for local public health operations was emerging. On Friday, the panel was told now is the time for the state to invest in public health services, including family planning. Cathy
LANSING - Michigan's birth rate has been on a continuous decline since 1990 and could have a major effect on the number of students entering the state's public universities if the percentage of high school seniors entering college does not increase, so concludes a paper published by the Senate Fiscal Agency. The children born in
DETROIT - General Motors Corp.'s auditor said formally Thursday that there is substantial doubt the struggling auto maker can remain a going concern, putting an official stamp on the company's dire condition and forcing GM to seek waivers from lenders. The comments came in GM's delayed annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
BURLINGAME, Calif.- Google has turned the advertising industry upside down. Here's something else the Internet giant is changing: Web sites--both how they are used and how Web designers ought to go about putting them together. Chalk it up to another triumph of less being more. The traditional advice about building a Web site was to
LANSING - Michigan Homeland Security Consortium, an industry trade association of Homeland Security companies in Michigan has become a supporting organization for the American Security Challenge, a non-profit mechanism to nurture and fund emerging security technology firms devoted to our national security. "We invite entrepreneurs and security technology companies in Michigan to submit their executive
DETROIT - Con Vida, Spanish for With Life, searches the Americas - North, Central and South - for art made by natives, primarily low income folks outside the major cities. Then Con Vida packages the art up for exhibit in the United States and on its web site, ConVida.Org - a different wrinkle for the
DETROIT - Six percent of chief financial officers in the Detroit area expect to add accounting and finance staff during the second quarter of 2009 and 11 percent anticipate reductions in personnel, according to the most recent Robert Half International Financial Hiring Index. The majority of respondents, 82 percent, anticipate no change in hiring. The
LANSING - Students would be required to attend high school until they are 18 years old, unless their parent or guardian gave consent for them to drop out, under two bills the Michigan House passed Wednesday on 71-37 votes. Under current law, students are required to attend school until they reach age 16. Proponents of