DETROIT - Comerica Bank?s Michigan Economic Activity Index increased in March, up 1.8 points to a level of 119.9. The March index reading is 49 points, or 68 percent, above the index cyclical low of 71.2. The index averaged 114 for all of 2012, 11 points above the index average for 2011. February?s index reading
MACKINAC ISLAND - Policy-makers will look at education reform differently if they view the system from the student's perspective, a variety of speakers told those gathered for the Detroit Regional Chamber Mackinac Policy Conference. While the focus has been on failing schools on most states, the entire education system is failing, Michelle Rhee, CEO of
LANSING - The Michigan Senate Wednesday gave final approval to the School Aid Omnibus budget, which includes funding for K-12 education, community colleges and higher education, along mostly party lines. The bill now goes to Governor Rick Snyder. Sen. Roger Kahn (R-Saginaw Township), chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, praised HB 4228 as a bipartisan
LANSING - The Michigan Legislature would determine which projects get a slice of the $115 million in priority road funding in the 2013-14 Department of Transportation budget under the conference committee version of the budget approved Tuesday. The budget in SB 184 , and contained within the HB 4328 omnibus bill, follows the recent budget
TROY ? The Michigan Council of Women in Technology?s annual membership meeting will be held at Altair Engineering on June 4. Denise Roberts will talk about the Art of Networking. Sponsored by: Altair Engineering, 1820 East Big Beaver Road, Troy, MI 48083 To register, click on MCWT.Org
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed at a California conference that Apple has sold more than 13 million Apple TV devices - half of those set-top box devices were sold last year. He also hinted Apple may soon offer a wearable computer. But when pressed for specifics about Apple's vision for the device,
MACKINAC ISLAND - Any discussion of selling art from the Detroit Institute of Arts is premature, but the art "could be in play," if Detroit finds itself in a Chapter 9 bankruptcy, Treasurer Andy Dillon told reporters here. But the spokesperson for Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr said the discussion that began a week ago
MACKINAC ISLAND - Better educating Michigan children and welcoming immigrants are among the keys to improving the state's economy, Governor Rick Snyder and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said in opening the Detroit Regional Chamber Mackinac Policy Conference. The conference is organized around three "pillars" of discussion: cultural change, education and the 21st Century global
WASHINGTON DC - U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers' name had surfaced as a possible choice for President Barack Obama to name as FBI director, but Obama went in a different direction, announcing Wednesday his nomination of James Comey, a former top official in the U.S. Department of Justice, for the post. Rogers (R-Brighton) had the support
HOUGHTON ? Megan Frost is developing an antimicrobial film dressing for wound closure at her lab at Michigan Technological University. But while she understood the science, she didn?t know how to build a company to commercialize her invention. Enter Inforum's ACTiVATE program. ACTiVATE, a 10-month program launched in August 2012 by Inforum, guides women through