Brendon Ringlever of BL Government Affairs office in Lansing discusses the negotiations on the 2008 Michigan budget in this special edition of Newsmaker Interview. Some chips on the table include making Michigan a Right To Work state, meaning employees would have the option of joining, or not joining, a union that represents workers.
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TRAVERSE CITY - Brendan Ringlever of BL Government Affairs’ Lansing office provides an update of the top themes and stories from this year’s National Governor’s Conference in Traverse City. Universities providing innovation for entrepreneurs to commercialize and Internet predators were some of the top issues in this special edition of Newsmaker Interview.
TROY - Blaze Biomedical Devices, which develops diagnostic devices for blood transfusions, won the 2007 spring New Business Idea category at the Great Lakes Entrepreneurs’ Quest contest. Founder Michael Tarasev talks about his new company in this special GLEQ podcast.
TROY - RealKidz, a company that makes plus sizes for children and a social network for parents, was the runner up in the 2007 spring Great Lakes Entrepreneur’s Quest competition. RealKidz founder Merrill Guerra talks about her company in this special GLEQ podcast.
LANSING - JL Needham, manager of public sector content partnerships at Google, talks about a new search partnership with the state of Michigan that will let the state’s residents find out which beaches are closed and which highway lanes are shut down during construction season in this Newsmaker Interview.
LANSING -Republican members of the Michigan House announced last week a statewide effort to seek ideas from tax payers, public policy experts and government officials to develop initiatives to get Michigan back on its feet. Assistant Republican leader Rep. Kevin Elsenheimer from Bellaire discusses the GOP Road Trip in this Newsmaker Interview.
MANISTEE - Amy Garrison, communications and program coordinator for the Michigan Corn Marketing Program, talks about corn’s role in creating a new green fuel, Ethanol, and what will happen to corn demand in Michigan. Garrison, interviewed at the 2007 Michigan Energy Fair, also dispels some corn myths in the Newsmaker Interview.
Brendan Ringlever of BL Government Affair’s Lansing office discusses in this Newsmaker Interview what’s happening with the federal Real ID Act, which would create a federal identity card for all US citizens. Michigan could become a laboratory for testing the new ID since the state leads the nation in foreign trade, primarily with neighboring Canada.
MANISTEE - Manistee County Commissioner Allan O’Shea talks about the success of the 2007 Michigan Energy Fair, which featured exhibits on green energy technologies at the Manistee County Fairgrounds in June. O’Shea is one of the founder fathers of the event, which attracted thousands of alternative energy advocates.
TROY - Blizzard Boost, which makes an electric engine power enhancer somewhat like a turbo charger, won two specialty awards at the Spring 2007 Great Lakes Entrepreneur’s Quest contest competition - $12,500 each from Automation Alley and Next Energy. In this special edition of Newsmaker Interview, co founder Mark Schwartz talks about the future of his Michigan technology company.
LANSING - Democratic State Rep. Steve Bieda, one of the players behind the new Michigan Business Tax, provides and overview for businesses on what they can expect from the replacement for the archaic Single Business Tax. Rep. Bieda expects the new tax to actually become a magnet for new business attraction in this special BL Government Affairs edition of Newsmaker Interview.
