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Grand Rapids To Consider Mobile Food Business Ordinance To Set Rules For Food Trucks

GRAND RAPIDS - Cindy Schneider credits her Lottos Lunch Wagon as her first step to launching the venerable San Chez restaurant downtown, so she has a soft spot in her heart for any entrepreneur who uses a food truck as a way to build a business in Grand Rapids. By the same token, Cindy says,

By |2016-08-04T13:57:40-04:00August 4th, 2016|Entrepreneurs, Politics|

Obama Makes FBI Lead Government Agency To Respond To Cyberattacks

WASHINGTON DC - Who's in charge of responding to "cyber incidents" in the US? As of today, it's the Federal Bureau of Investigation. President Barack Obama outlined a new policy for responding to cyberattacks on both the government and US industry on Tuesday, making the FBI the lead agency regardless of where the attack seems

By |2016-07-28T16:12:43-04:00July 28th, 2016|Cyber Defense, Politics|

Energy Agency Advocates For Another Proposal To Eliminate Payments On UP Electric Generator

LANSING - The Michigan Agency for Energy announced support Wednesday of a plan by American Transmission Company that would eliminate certain payments for the White Pine electric generator in the Upper Peninsula. The announcement comes two days after a federal judge issued a proposal that Wisconsin Energy Corporation owed ratepayers some $17 million for running

By |2016-07-28T16:53:41-04:00July 28th, 2016|Clean Update, Politics|

US DOT Secretary Foxx Detroit Auto Cybersecurity Speech Now Online

DETROIT - U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx’s speech at the inaugural Billington Auto Cybersecurity conference last Friday at Cobo Center is now posted online for you to watch. Highlights of his speech include: The US DOT will soon (weeks perhaps months) be issuing its own report on auto cybersecurity and the threats posed by the

By |2016-07-25T20:42:16-04:00July 25th, 2016|Autonomous Vehicles, Cyber Defense, Featured, Politics|

Federal Judge Slaps Injunction On Michigan Law Repealing Straight Ticket Voting

LANSING - One of the great unknowns heading into the 2016 election, the first general election in more than a century without voters having the option to pick a party's slate of candidates with a single mark on the ballot, has been removed for now with a federal judge slapping a preliminary injunction Thursday on

By |2016-07-22T22:41:14-04:00July 22nd, 2016|Politics|

Samsung, LG Found Guilty Of Dumping Clothes Washers In The United States

BENTON HARBOR - Samsung and LG, two South Korean manufacturers of clothes washers, have been found guilty of dumping their products in the United States at prices below production costs to steal business from Whirlpool Corp. A preliminary antidumping ruling was issued Thursday by the U.S. Department of Commerce confirming Whirlpool's allegations against Samsung and

By |2016-07-21T18:55:49-04:00July 21st, 2016|News, Politics|

Report: Michigan Workers Compensation Prescription Costs Fall

LANSING - Michigan's workers compensation changes aimed at reducing the prices paid for physician-dispensed prescriptions has largely been achieved, a study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute has shown, but the number of prescriptions dispensed is still more prevalent than expected. With data covering 15 months experience following the legal changes (Michigan's changes took effect

By |2016-07-20T15:27:17-04:00July 20th, 2016|Life Sciences, Politics|

Choice Of Longtime Oil Lobbyist As DEQ Chief Lambasted By Environmentalists

LANSING - Environmental groups and Democrats were quick Thursday to deride Gov. Rick Snyder’s choice of Heidi Grether to head the Department of Environmental Quality because of her background lobbying for BP America. Grether is currently deputy director of the Michigan Agency for Energy, where she led state efforts to comply with new federal carbon

By |2016-07-15T14:36:45-04:00July 15th, 2016|Clean Update, Politics|

Energy Agency Issues Clean Energy Manufacturing Roadmap

LANSING — The Michigan Agency for Energy Tuesday issued a Clean Energy Manufacturing Roadmap, a collaborative effort of the state of Michigan and officials in northeast Ohio to boost jobs in the “energy efficient building technology” industry. “For Michigan, this roadmap demonstrates the opportunities that lie in strengthening clean energy manufacturing to diversify and strengthen the

By |2016-07-08T11:59:27-04:00July 8th, 2016|Clean Update, Featured, Politics|