ANN ARBOR - The financial foundation of the Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest, heavily eroded last summer, has been rebuilt by the return of some traditional sponsors and by the the recruitment of several new ones. GLEQ, a statewide business plan competition that began with heavy state backing in 2000, nearly died in 2005 before it
LANSING - Michigan's minimum wage workers would see their pay jump from the current $5.15 an hour to $6.95 an hour beginning in October under legislation the Senate unanimously and surprisingly approved on Thursday. The House is expected to pass the bill next week, which would mark the first increase in Michigan's minimum wage in
LANSING - Repeal of Michigan's 30-year-old single business tax got a jump start Thursday by House Republicans who voted out a repeal bill in committee and called on Gov. Jennifer Granholm to get on board or become a bystander to one of the biggest tax changes in Michigan's history. Republicans say they aren't arguing that
HOLLAND - Five months after the death of Sordal Founder Dale Danver, the once publicity hungry R&D lab, which created non-flammable paper and insulating tiles that will fly on the next generation space shuttle, maintains a wall of silence. Danver, 54, died of natural causes Oct. 5 while on vacation in Portugal. Other than the
REDMOND, Wa. - Microsoft is set to launch on Wednesday the beta version of its new Windows Live Search page, which uses the same behind-the-scenes technology as MSN Search but will eventually become the company's sole search offering. "In the future there will be one search experience-when we come out of beta (with Windows Live
SOUTHFIELD - Gifford Pinchot, who coined the word Intrapreneur, will deliver two guest lectures as the guest of Lawrence Technological University's Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization. The Harvard-trained Pinchot heads Pinchot & Company, a firm that helps companies reduce bureaucratic obstacles and implement more effective business practices. Pinchot also wrote the book, "Intrapreneuring: You Don't Have To
LANSING - When Michigan Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Zeeland) and Rep. Andy Dillon (D-Redford) embarked on the creation of what became the 21st Century Jobs Fund, the state's tool for using securitized tobacco settlement money to invest in high-tech jobs, the issue wasn't political. But since the legislation was crafted, negotiated and signed into law in
LANSING - Gov. Jennifer Granholm said Friday she could not support a petition drive to accelerate the end of Michigan's Single Business Tax without knowing how to generate $1.8 billion that would be lost from the tax. In response, Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson called the governor's comments a "cop out," and labeled the
LANSING - Executives at new economy businesses so coveted by Michigan view the state as having a more favorable tax climate than others in the survey, but rank Michigan near the bottom as a hospitable place to do business because of a less educated workforce, a new poll shows. The poll commissioned by Western Michigan
LANSING - Given that legislation would cap tax credits at $500,000, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and the Granholm administration should be able to come up with funding for a package of tax credits to encourage creation of ethanol stations, the Senate Technology and Energy Committee said Wednesday. The package (SB 1074, SB 1075, SB