Quicken Loan's Dan Gilbert, named Crain's Newsmaker of the Year for 2006, spoke last week at an Inforum breakfast about Southeast Michigan's regional assets as well as its liabilities. Assets: work ethic, entrepreneurship and its research universities. Liabilities: brain drain, victim mentality and bureaucracy resistant to change.
It doesn't take a special event to merit a trip to Mt. Clemens — home to burgeoning bar and restaurant district, plus some of Southeastern Michigan's best-attended, best-loved events.
Mt. Clemens is Macomb County's entertainment mecca, it has a great network of parks and is walkable. And this is why it is becoming, amongst east-siders in particular, an up-and-coming place to move.
39 new members joined Automation Alley, the tech trade group based in Troy, in the month of January - a single month record for the organization.
Keith Schneider of the Michigan Land Use Institute, a statewide smart land use advocacy group, has started a new blog to talk about media, the internet, land use and economic development called Modeshift.
The non-profit sector - including health care and education - accounted for 62% of new jobs created in Michigan in 2005 and local professionals are finding themselves rewarding careers.
Ann Arbor News business columnist Rick Haglund takes a look at the role that entrepreneurship can play in recovery of Michigan's economy.
In Governor Jennifer Granholm's State of the State address on Tuesday, she proposed initiatives that would retain and attract workers and diversify Michigan's economy including training and education, alternative energy and stem cell research.
In her annual State of the State address, Governor Jennifer Granholm called for two years of free training or community college for any displaced worker in Michigan.
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