LANSING - ATT on Monday defended a bill that would end landline service to customers under certain conditions, saying the bill is merely to authorize a transition process and the company has no intention to come through towns and "snip wires" as some perceive, according to Matt Resch, spokesperson for the company. SB 636 currently
LANSING - A new committee unveiled itself, at least in social media, over the weekend to promote a change to a part-time legislature. The Committee to Restore Michigan's Part-Time Legislature was officially formed November 15, but launched its Internet presence over the weekend with a website, Facebook page and Twitter feed. The website indicates the
LANSING - Despite some concerns raised by legislators when the idea was first revealed, the Lottery Bureau announced Monday it had selected Pollard Banknote and NeoGames to develop its new iLottery system to allow residents to play lottery games online. The bureau was expecting about a year for development of the system, with the games
WASHINGTON DC ? Of the 60,000 new jobs create in the tech industry in the United States this year, some 60 percent of the positions went to women, reported job site Dice.Com. "Companies have been focusing on getting more women into technology for a long time," Shravan Goli, said president of Dice. "This year those
LANSING - The Department of Education announced Friday that the Genesee Intermediate School District won the $5 million grant to run a pilot program providing technology services to at least five schools, not the company run by Budget Director John Nixon's brother. iSchool Campus had pitched the idea to the Legislature of placing some funding
DETROIT ? NextUP, a specialized leadership development program for high-potential women early in their careers, will be offered in both Southeast and West Michigan in February 2013 by the Inforum Center for Leadership. Applications due December 6. The program is designed to help women overcome traditional roadblocks and achieve early and enduring success in a
ANN ARBOR- Steady job growth over the next two years will bring Michigan back to job levels posted just prior to the 2008-09 Great Recession and nearly halfway back to mid-2000 levels, say University of Michigan economists. In their annual November forecast of the Michigan economy, George Fulton and colleagues Joan Crary and Donald Grimes
ANN ARBOR - The U.S. economy will continue its steady climb upward over the next two years, say economists at the University of Michigan in a report released Thursday. "Washington inflicted quite a bit of short-term damage to the U.S. economy in 2013," said Daniil Manaenkov of the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics in the
LANSING - What does almost $10 million in tax incentives buy the Michigan Strategic Fund through the Michigan Business Development Program? More than $100.7 million in investments by four companies and upwards of 695 jobs down the road. ?These new investments across Michigan will strengthen our communities and fuel more and better jobs for our
ROCHESTER - Chrysler Group will host the Michigan Council of Women in Technology?s eighth annual black-tie Signature Gala on Nov. 23. Event proceeds will benefit the MCWT Foundation, an organization dedicated to inspiring and supporting women entering and staying in information technology careers. ?At Chrysler, we believe it is our diversity of talents and perspectives