Governor

Whitmer Calls For More State Contracts For ‘Disadvantaged’ Businesses

LANSING - Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has asked the state to adopt policies to increase the contracts the state awards to "geographically disadvantaged businesses" so as to expand business opportunities in "low-income communities and underutilized business areas." In her eighth executive directive issued since she's taken office, Whitmer said she wants the Michigan Department of Technology,

By |2019-01-13T18:17:51-05:00January 13th, 2019|Politics, Small Business Association of Michigan|

Snyder Tells How Michigan’s Comeback Story Is Real

LANSING - Michigan's "relentlessly positive" governor used his final State of the State address Tuesday night to make the case why the Great Lakes State is better off today than it was when he took over more than seven years ago. The vast majority of Gov. Rick Snyder’s 53-minute speech Tuesday heralded "The Michigan Comeback

By |2018-01-31T14:36:05-05:00January 31st, 2018|Politics, Small Business Association of Michigan|

State Agencies Need To Work Together To Foster Career, Technical Education

LANSING - If career and technical education programs are going to gain the recognition that state leaders want, everyone involved needs to change how they talk about those programs, Governor Rick Snyder, Superintendent of Public Instruction Brian Whiston and Talent and Economic Development Director Roger Curtis said in various presentations to the Governor's Education and

By |2017-04-27T16:44:59-04:00April 27th, 2017|Politics|