With the end of SOAR and cuts to job-growth funding, lawmakers say they will retool economic development incentives by year-end. The effort follows ‘bad deals’ as the state pledged billions to jobs that barely materialized Officials expect to reward a wider group of businesses with no more up-front payments LANSING — Lawmakers may seek to overhaul […]
Lawmakers demand answers from a failed, $175 million deal with EV battery maker Gotion Steps are underway to recoup $23.5 million in taxpayer funding, but it’s unclear what the money was spent on. Questions about how the deal unwinds also include whether the state can foreclose and regain the 270 acres it bought.LANSING — Michigan […]
On a recent Friday afternoon, Marie Richards sat in her living room in northern Michigan. She was having a hard time talking about her job at the US Forest Service in the past tense. “I absolutely loved my job,” she said. “I didn’t want to go.” Richards, a citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe […]
LANSING – As educators across Michigan work to improve children’s early literacy skills, local schools and the Michigan Department of Education are celebrating March is Reading Month. Today State Superintendent Dr. Michael F. Rice visited a second-grade classroom at Parchment School District’s Central Elementary School in Kalamazoo County. He read “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout” by […]
The Trump administration has halted a $15 million Social Security study that involved the University of Michigan, whose president warns more cuts are likely that will have “serious repercussions” on the school’s budget. The Social Security Administration announced Friday it was ending cooperative agreements with research centers “addressing DEI in Social Security, retirement, and disability policy.” The Michigan […]
Michigan State University stands to lose as much as $23 million a year in federal grants as a result of President Donald Trump’s steep cuts to the US Agency for International Development. Project leads received a series of termination notices Wednesday for federally funded MSU programs aimed at improving higher education and researching agricultural best […]
Muskegon, MI – The Muskegon Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce proudly announces seven winners of the highly esteemed Business Excellence Awards. The winners will be recognized for outstanding performance at the fourth annual “Business Excellence Awards” Event. Each of these businesses or individuals has set the standard of excellence every day in their respective business sector. […]
Muskegon – Muskegon Community College (MCC) is calling on gamers in the community to take part in its first-ever MCC Esports Tournament, set to take place on March 15, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Stevenson Center, Room 3306. The groundbreaking event is open to athletes ages 16 and over and is […]
Muskegon — United Way of the Lakeshore announced the launch of United Way’s free tax filing through My Free Taxes® for the new tax season. My Free Taxes lets U.S. tax filers who earned less than $84K last year file their federal and state taxes online – for free. Since 2009, My Free Taxes has […]
BY Brian Vernellis West Michigan’s businesses and purchasing managers are seeing a slow, but positive start to the economy in 2025, said a Grand Valley researcher. Brian Long, director of supply management research at GVSU’s Seidman College of Business, said his January survey of local purchasing managers returned encouraging signs that the economy was off to […]