Category Archives: Telecommunications & ISPs

6% of x? Untangling Michigan’s Service Tax

October 11, 2007 – 9:08 am

Half Staff by Apocaplops UPDATE Oct 25: Carol of ArborLaw.com writes: I actually have the entire list of services descriptions covered by the law, on my blog at Arborlaw.com. When the law came out, I cross-referenced the NAICS codes (which are incorporated into the new law specifically by reference) with the section numbers from the [...]

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Blogs We Dig: Michigan Innovators

October 11, 2007 – 8:18 am

Moon Patrol by powerbooktrance Each post at Michigan Innovators is a video podcast interview with innovators who can or have had an impact on Michigan’s economy. Two professors at the College of Business at Eastern Michigan University, Diana Wong and Bud Gibson, started the site with hopes that it would become a “highly visible repository [...]

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Shutdown averted … by a service tax

October 1, 2007 – 10:27 am

An appeal to reason by Apocaplops StateGate seems like it might be nearing its conclusion with an 13th hour deal reached at 4 AM when legislators were apparently too tired to fight anymore. The LSJ reports: “This budget agreement is the right solution for Michigan,” Gov. Jennifer Granholm said in a news release after the [...]

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Lansing Area Capital Gains: Volume 1, Issue 1

September 10, 2007 – 8:50 am

Summer Night in Old Town by sabatoa The Model D empire continues its inexorable march to talk about what’s going right in Michigan cities with Lansing Area Capital Gains. The first issue includes a feature by managing editor Brad Garmon on the resurgence of Michigan’s Capital City that begins: It doesn’t take an urban planner [...]

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The New Ford Simplexity at the Chicago Auto Show

February 8, 2007 – 8:45 am

Sync by pinksage Paddock Talk (a NASCAR racing site) has a transcript of the remarks of Ford President of the Americas Mark Fields at the Chicago Auto Show. He talks about “simplexity” – the state that exists when something is both simple and complex at the same time – and how it relates to the [...]

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Vol I, No. 1: Introduce Your Michigan Business or Organization!

January 25, 2007 – 9:16 pm

This is a page where we asked folks to say hello. Lots of them did! The current version of Introduce Your Michigan Business or Organization is right there. Share this:

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Tax on services being considered in Lansing

January 9, 2007 – 8:25 am

Country Schoolhouse by nomm de photo The Detroit News reports that some Democrats, Republicans and public policy experts are saying Michigan needs to take a look at extending the sales tax to cover more services and (perhaps) lowering the sales tax overall by a penny (6 ¢ to 5 ¢) to help offset a projected [...]

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Ann Arbor & Washtenaw County a High Tech Beacon

October 9, 2006 – 10:21 am

First National Bank Building by Allan M Today’s Freep has a nice feature on Ann Arbor’s exploding high-tech job scene that says Google is not the only company planning to bring jobs to the city and Washtenaw County. Google, Toyota, Hyundai and others have committed to creating 2,500 jobs in the region over the next [...]

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Michigan Books: Michigan’s Economic Future by Charles Ballard

September 19, 2006 – 9:04 am

Jack Lessenberry interviews MSU Economics professor Charles Ballard about his new book Michigan’s Economic Future. Ballard says that manufacturing is destined to be a smaller part of Michigan’s economy and says that the state needs to focus more on cutting edge industrial research. Jack asks “If Dick DeVos or Jennifer Granholm asks you what the [...]

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We do love our cars: Southeast Michigan

August 4, 2006 – 11:01 am

TheStrip by Hemicuda82 We do love our cars in Michigan, as this photo of the Summer Classic Car Show in Flint demonstrates. For a century the automobile has defined Michigan and now the demise of the auto industry is redefining us. At Absolute Michigan, we’re trying very hard to fight past the “we lost a [...]

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