Michigan Radio's Jack Lessenberry interviews Thomas Anderson, vice-president and the senior director of Automation Alley about how the Southeast Michigan based organization is working to help businesses in the City of Detroit and Genesee, Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, St. Clair, Washtenaw and Wayne counties meet a changing business environment. In a manner common to Jack's [...]
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Bridge by Kathy
The Center for Michigan sends a weekly email newsletter that takes a look at Michigan's problems AND potential solutions from a perspective that is neither Republican nor Democrat - ie. the approach that will probably be required to get our partisanly polarized political process back on the rails.
Rather than weigh you down with [...]
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By Julie Hay, Great Lakes Bulletin News Service
Leo Ocanas photo by J. Carl Ganter
with-these-hands.com
There is an ease in his heavily accented voice. Neither his accent nor his modesty, though, masks the smile in Leo Ocanas’s voice when he speaks about the Hispanic tradition in farming.
“The legend of the Hispanic people is work. Our ambitions come [...]
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Quixote by Lantern Waste Studios
Right now, only 3% of Michigan's electricity comes from renewable resources. Michigan Public Service Commission Chairman J. Peter Lark says that raising the Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) is a good first move:
"A required RPS is a win-win proposition. It will encourage the creation of in-state jobs, reduce pollution and dependence on [...]
U-M North Campus Computer Science
Building by meanmustard1982
Phil Power writes that he recently had dinner with a group of bright, enthusiastic young people, all about to graduate from college and excited about their future ... and all planning to leave Michigan. He suggests that finding, attracting, nurturing and retaining talent is the single most important thing [...]
GVSU Cook-DeVos Center for
Health Sciences by docksidepress
The Great Lakes IT Reports says that the Van Andel Institute and Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids have formed a new joint venture, the Center for Molecular Medicine. The Center will offer molecular technologies for investigation of complex diseases like cancer, heart disease, mental illness and other conditions at [...]
Traffic Jammed by Paul Hitz
The Lansing State Journal reports that the inability Michigan's governor and lawmakers to come to an agreement that solves the state's budget crisis is not playing well on Wall Street. Standard & Poor's Rating Service lists Michigan is the only state with a negative credit outlook due to massive shortfalls in [...]
Miners Castle by James Phelps
Clean Lakes Mean Good Jobs from the Michigan Land Use Institute alerted us to the fact that today is Great Lakes Day (I was unaware that there even was such a thing). MLUI's Andy Guy says...
...when Washington lawmakers will be hearing from supporters of the proposed $20 billion Strategy to Restore [...]
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Jennifer Granholm by C.A. Carrigan
WJRT-TV 12 Flint has complete video coverage of the first of Governor Jennifer Granholm's live town hall meetings and also video of the Republicans "counter-offensive" on the budget.
The Freep has an article that includes a schedule on these invitation-only events:
Tuesday, March 6: Southfield, 7 p.m. on WXYZ-TV (Channel 7). View the [...]
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Chevy Volt Concept by GM Blogs
Here's a couple of nice articles that follow up on some past features on Absolute Michigan. The first, Getting a Jolt from Volt on the GM Fastlane Blog revisits the Chevy Volt (Detroit Auto Show: Chevy Volt an early darling). GM Chairman Bob Lutz writes:
...some cynics accused us of pulling [...]
