GRAND RAPIDS - A partnership between the Michigan Public Safety Communications System and the city of Grand Rapids is improving critical public safety communications for agencies and first responders in the Grand Rapids metropolitan area. MPSCS and the city are co-locating equipment and sharing tower space, improving emergency communications near the US-131 S-curve and in
DETROIT - Comerica Bank's Michigan Economic Activity in May increased 3 percent from April, and some 74 percent higher than the cyclical low during the recent recession ? another sign that the Michigan economy continues its upward trend. In May, the index was 125.2, compared with April?s index reading of 122.2. The index averaged 114
LANSING ? David Behen, Michigan government's chief information officer, was told by his 21st Century Advisory Board more than a year ago that Michigan needed to develop a contest for developers to write mobile application code to spur the nascent industry in Michigan. This week the state's first Code Michigan event was announced. In October,
DETROIT - As part of the city of Detroit?s Chapter 9 bankruptcy petition filing, Governor Rick Snyder in a four-page letter outlines his reasons for allowing the city to do so, saying it is the only ?reasonable way? to address the city?s insolvency. ?I have reached the conclusion that this step is necessary after a
LANSING - All of the state's universities show a gap in six-year graduation rates between white students and minorities, some of them significant, a report released Wednesday by the Education Trust showed. The report, which looked at higher education institutions across the country based on data submitted to the U.S. Department of Education for 2011,
LANSING - As the Michigan House Education subcommittee begins hearings on the Common Core State Standards, one business group is pushing its members to reach out to legislators and others on the importance of maintaining the standards. Business Leaders for Michigan sent an email Tuesday touting the standards as an economic development tool. "As a
DETROIT ? In a filing disclosed Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Compuware and a New York investment fund have extended a standstill agreement between them to Sept. 15. New York based Elliot Management and its subsidiaries said the agreement was to have expired Monday, but the parties agreed Friday to extend it
GRAND RAPIDS - Michigan Health Connect is the first health information exchange in the state to effectively transfer infectious disease lab reports from hospitals to the state health department, saving valuable response time during disease outbreaks. Seven McLaren Heath Care hospitals in Michigan ? McLaren Bay Region, McLaren Central Michigan, McLaren Flint, McLaren Greater Lansing,
WEST BLOOMFIELD ? The labor market for engineering talent has fundamentally changed in Michigan becoming a sellers' market, so says The Hunter Group, an executive search agency. ?If you have a strong technical background and you?re not working, it?s by choice,? said Sherry Muir Irwin, a partner in The Hunter Group, founded in 1995 to
WEST BLOOMFIELD ? Gibbs Sports Amphibians, maker of the world's first personal sports amphibian, plans to add a hundred new dealers nationwide, hire more employees to assemble the land-water vehicles in Auburn Hills, and introduce a new two-passenger model later this year. The company has orders to build 1000 Quadskis in 2013, said Gibbs Communications