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Records: Rural Michigan ‘overlooked’ in Michigan’s $6B subsidy spending spree

Tom Wdowik is relieved these days by waves of vacationers visiting cabins, restaurants and hotels along Lake Huron, despite worries that high gas and food prices this year could stall tourism.

 

Michigan loaned $35M to mobility center. Debt could cripple it, boosters say

Michigan is demanding repayment of $35 million from a state-backed mobility research center supporters say is critical to keeping autonomous vehicle development in Michigan.

 

Michigan betting that space is next frontier to create jobs

When the US this month sent its first crewed rocket mission into space in 50 years, Michigan-made products went along for the ride.

 

A first for Michigan’s $2.4B SOAR business incentive program: New jobs

Michigan’s embattled $2.4 billion business incentive program has spurred controversy, but last year it began generating something new: Jobs.

 

Inside Michigan’s secret $261M plan to raze homes for megafactory that never came

Mark Rood wanted to know if the rumors were true: Was a massive factory coming to his Genesee County community?

 

A new report says Michigan faces ‘a critical time,’ needs innovation to retain $348B auto industry

Michigan needs to confront risks to its $348 billion piece of the global automotive industry this year and move decisively toward keeping jobs, engineering and production in the state.

 

Michigan farm values growing faster than national rate due to demand for development

Michigan farm property values are going gangbusters, rising 7.8% in the past year and leading the nation, according to an annual report from the U.S.

 

Tech giants announce $7B data center, Michigan’s first hyperscale campus

Michigan is poised to receive its first hyperscale data center after three tech giants revealed themselves Thursday as the developers behind a proposed 1-gigawatt-plus AI project on farmland in Saline Township.