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GRAND RAPIDS — Grand Rapids–based Acrisure plans to eliminate approximately 400 positions, including about 200 in Michigan, as the global insurance and fintech firm deploys artificial intelligence systems to automate portions of its accounting operations, according to reporting by Crain’s Grand Rapids Business. Company officials have described the move as part of a broader technology
WASHINGTON DC - The cryptocurrency industry has moved from market disruptor to political heavyweight. Heading into the November 2026 midterm elections, crypto-aligned political action committees have assembled a campaign war chest estimated at more than $200 million, positioning the digital asset sector as one of the most aggressive new players in federal politics. The strategy
Michigan’s defense and aerospace sector supports 160,000 jobs. A new strategy aims to capture more federal and international investment. LANSING — When Gov. Gretchen Whitmer addressed global leaders at the Munich Security Conference this week, she wasn’t just participating in an international policy discussion. She was promoting one of Michigan’s most strategic economic engines: its
Commercial trucks queue on the Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor. The Detroit-Windsor corridor carries roughly one-quarter of U.S.-Canada trade. DETROIT - The nearly completed Gordie Howe International Bridge was designed to reduce risk in one of North America’s most critical trade corridors. Now it is at the center of a political dispute that could
WASHINGTON DC - For more than 15 years, U.S. companies, utilities, insurers, and state governments have planned investments around a stable set of federal climate rules anchored by a single regulatory foundation: the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 Endangerment Finding, which determined that greenhouse gas emissions pose risks to public health and economic welfare. That framework
ANN ARBOR - Michigan lawmakers are beginning to publicly grapple with a question that until recently was playing out mostly behind closed doors: Can the state absorb a surge of massive data centers without straining the electric grid, raising rates for residents, or sidelining local communities? That question took center stage this week as a
LANSING - Michigan is not just another battleground state. In the looming Senate fight over the SAVE Act and the filibuster, it could become the decisive pressure point. The state’s closely divided electorate, turnout-sensitive elections, and two Democratic U.S. senators place Michigan squarely at the center of a national struggle over Senate power and election
WASHINGTON DC - As President Donald Trump faces softening poll numbers and Republicans defend razor-thin margins in Congress, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act has become more than an election policy proposal. It is now a strategic test of turnout, Senate power, and institutional norms — including whether Republicans would weaken the filibuster to
DEARBORN - When Ford Motor Company says it cannot fill thousands of open mechanic jobs — even with wages that can approach six figures — the issue is not about people refusing to work. It is about whether workforce training systems are keeping pace with how work itself has changed. Ford CEO Jim Farley recently
DETROIT – TechTown Detroit and Comerica Bank have announced the return of the Comerica Hatch Detroit Contest by TechTown, a small business competition that awards $100,000 in startup funding as well as support services to one entrepreneur seeking to open a brick-and-mortar storefront in Detroit, Hamtramck or Highland Park. The competition, first launched in 2011, hatches small business development in
