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Song pushes Ann Arbor, state for ‘better story’

Song pushes Ann Arbor, state for ‘better story’

Every Friday, at 4:30 p.m., local geeks are invited to pop a cold one at Tech Brewery in  Ann Arbor. The start-up co-op, located in what was a brewery in the 1880s, rents space to network-hungry ...

Haslett builds readers, 20 minutes at a time

Haslett builds readers, 20 minutes at a time

Twenty minutes a night. That number is drilled into Haslett kids in this mid-Michigan suburb by teachers in classrooms and parents at kitchen tables. Read for 20 minutes a night. Read Tolstoy. Read a comic book. ...

Report: Michigan is high on price of college degrees

Report: Michigan is high on price of college degrees

College graduates in Michigan and elsewhere are rightly anxious about their future job prospects — an anxiety only heightened by the piles of debt so many have accumulated while on campus. Erin Dillon, senior policy analyst ...

Fund-equity deals break teacher contract logjams

Fund-equity deals break teacher contract logjams

In March 2010, members of the Grosse Pointe Education Association held a noisy demonstration before a meeting of their district’s board, calling attention to the fact they’d been working without a contract for six months, and ...

All Michigan regions grew in 2010

All Michigan regions grew in 2010

Michigan’s regional economies surged ahead in 2010, propelled by a surprisingly robust manufacturing sector and solid growth from the “information economy.” The latest figures are a positive pivot from a decade that saw most Michigan regions ...

Stomach-churning: Highs and lows in Mich. economy

Stomach-churning: Highs and lows in Mich. economy

Michigan has starred in its own disaster movie in the first decade of 21st century. The economic equivalents of F5 tornadoes and magnitude 9 earthquakes have battered the automotive industry and smashed construction work in the ...