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Tech Signs MOU With College in India

For the second time in less than three years, Michigan Technological University’s Pavlis Institute for Global Technological Leadership has entered into a partnership with a college in India. In June, Lorelle Meadows, dean of Michigan Tech’s Pavlis Honors College and Mary Raber, assistant dean of academic programs in the College, traveled …

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Customer Satisfaction With Cars Falling

A new study says customer satisfaction with cars has fallen three-point-seven percent to 79, on a 100 point scale. The study is from the American Customer Satisfaction Index. Car owners report a 40 percent increase in recalls, compared to the second quarter of last year, which is damaging driver satisfaction. …

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Clinton Behind In Michigan Polls To Bush, Tied With Trump

With 15 months to go until the election, former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton has some work to do to convince Michigan voters she is the choice for President in 2016. More than half the people in a new poll conducted by Lansing-based EPIC-MRA for the …

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Investors Advised Not To Panic

Amid an up and down market, financial advisors are urging investors not to hit the panic button. That probably didn’t stop some from selling earlier this week, when at one point the Dow had dropped a thousand points. But Lansing-based gold market analyst Pat Heller says an adjustment is underway …

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Michigan Doctor Launches Campaign to Drop Mi Child Vaccination Opt-Out

A Michigan doctor wants to eliminate the state’s child vaccination waivers for religious and philosophical reasons and she’s making it easier for others to join in her effort. Grand Rapids-area doctor, Michelle Davis, launched the website Mivaccinations.org that gives people a simple way to email state lawmakers saying they don’t …

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Lawmaker Wants to Change School Performance Scorecard

A color-filled scorecard ranking your child’s school would be a thing of the past under a bill soon-to-be introduced in the Michigan House. State Representative Lisa Posthumus Lyons says she will push a bill again to change the color-coded scorecard to a letter grading system. She introduced similar legislation last …

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