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This Week's Detroit News and Information
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- 2 businessmen seek funds for autism center
Two Detroit businessmen who have children with autism are making the rounds of companies and foundations to drum up financial support to open a multipurpose autism center.
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- Could both bridge projects tumble down?
Metro Detroit could soon go from two Detroit River bridge projects to none, a potential traffic and logistics migraine that's considered unlikely but has those involved warning that the region is poised to lose jobs if they fail.
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- Meadowbrook acquisition drove growth
Robert Cubbin, CEO of Southfield-based Meadowbrook Insurance Group (NYSE: MIG), said a 37.9 percent increase in 2009 operating income over 2008 is a sign that the 2008 acquisition of ProCentury Corp.
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- Econ Club plans to build on 75th anniversary
The Detroit Economic Club is preparing to celebrate its 75th anniversary with events designed to shore up its finances and renew member and regional commitment to the organization.
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- Rising costs have people with insurance delaying care – survey
A new survey in Michigan challenges long-held assumptions that people with insurance have adequate access to health care services and confirms the negative impact that rising health care prices have on choices consumers make when they need medical...
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- Wayne County asks to get some of state’s unused stimulus bonds
A stimulus-act bond program that can significantly reduce the cost of private projects has been well utilized in Wayne County — so well, county officials say, that they'd like the state to redistribute bond capacity allocated to other...
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- Rise of global platforms drives AZ Automotive deal
AZ Automotive Corp. is expected to close a deal this week to secure an equity investment from a global supplier of automotive stampings, welded assemblies and vehicle body structure components based in Portugal.
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- Poverty summit eyes job skills, more
Forty local and national experts gathered in Detroit last week to present their ideas for reducing poverty in the country's largest metropolitan areas over the next two to four years.
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- Automation Alley program aims to create defense jobs
Several local defense contractors, colleges and universities and trade associations formally agreed with Troy-based Automation Alley on Wednesday to launch a program in Sterling Heights that could create up to 3,000 local jobs in defense...
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- Rocky road ahead, says appraiser
The evidence of recovery is tenuous, and several pitfalls lie ahead that could still derail the national economy in 2010, according to Jamie Muter, owner and president of Troy-based Muter and Associates Inc.
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- Spectrum Health approved for heart, lung transplants
Spectrum Health, a seven-hospital system in western Michigan, has received the green light to begin heart and lung transplants, according to a ruling by the Michigan Department of Community Health.
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- CON ROUNDUP: New nursing home OK'd for Shelby Township
The Michigan Department of Community Health has authorized Cass Street Investors L.L.C. of West Bloomfield Township to replace the Wil Mar Convalescent Home in Utica with a newly constructed nursing home in Shelby Township.
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- Health Care People
People items from the Health Care Extra issue of March 8, 2010.
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- Bankruptcies
Bankruptcy items from the issue of March 8, 2010.
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- People
People items from the issue of March 8, 2010.
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- IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Donald Cameron and Robert Steffens
Auburn Hills-based Karl Schmidt Unisia, the North American automotive pistons division of Kolbenschmidt Pierburg AG, has named Donald Cameron to the newly created position of president and CEO and Robert Steffens to the...
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- Correction
Correction items from the issue of March 8, 2010.
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- Calendar
Calendar items from the issue of March 8, 2010.
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