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DEPORT — As many local governmental bodies around the Red River Valley are preparing for May elections, Deport City Council members finalized the candidates for the upcoming election at a Monday meeting, drawing the order in which candidates will appear on the ballot. Craig Folse, Rebecca Crawford, Gene Landreth, Danny Turner Jr. and John Roach are on the ballot for City Council, and Patrick Watson is running unopposed for mayor. The ballot will also include a vote to increase the sales ta...

Investcorp, a Bahrain-based asset manager that counts Mubadala Investment Company as its biggest shareholder, on Monday announced that one of its affiliates has acquired a majority ownership position in KSM Consulting, a leading consulting firm specialising in data analytics, technology and digital ..

Investcorp acquired the KSM Consulting stake from Renovus Capital Partners, which will retain its minority stake in the data company. The value of the transaction has not been disclosed. KSMC will continue to be led by CEO Mark Caswell and President John Roach after the deal gets through. In the past three years, it has grown at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40 per cent, pro forma for acquisitions. In the recent past, Investcorp had focussed on boosting its real estate portfolio in th...

BAHRAIN, 22nd February, 2021 (WAM) -- Investcorp, a Bahrain-based asset manager that counts Mubadala Investment Company as its biggest shareholder, on Monday announced that one of its affiliates has acquired a majority ownership position in KSM Consulting, a leading consulting firm specialising in data analytics, technology and digital transformation, from Renovus Capital Partners, which will continue to maintain a minority stake in KSMC. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2...

Donna Cugini is a persistent Michigan vaccine warrior, checking online every day in search of a shot in the arm. But Cugini, 82, has had no luck — not with her doctor, her local health department nor with area pharmacies in the western Upper Peninsula where she lives.   And then, when she reads that in Detroit the city is now vaccinating, regardless of age, food service workers and others, she does a slow burn. “It drives me insane,” said Cugini, who retired from the U.S. Department of ...

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan will join bi-partisan leaders providing input on Bidens national recovery plan

Some Michigan localities have opted to put lawmakers at the front of the coronavirus vaccination line despite some of the state’s higher risk citizens still waiting to gain access.

City says results show problems and plans to file internal complaint But mayors administration is now "confident" it wont need to sue under Biden U.S. Census Bureau After announcing in the fall that it would investigate how the U.S. Census Bureau counted Detroit and may resort to litigation, the city is now "confident" it wont need to sue. The city has collected evidence on the bureaus lack of effort to adequately enumerate Detroiters in 2020. It plans to send that information to the U.S. Comme...

The top priority of Detroit’s new $250 million blight removal program — the preservation and rehabilitation of 8,000 vacant homes — will receive just $73 million, less than one-third of the total funding, city spending documents show. The reduction in money for home rehabilitation work is almost a 20% drop from what was originally outlined. And that cut is raising new concerns about a "bait-and-switch" with voters who approved in November funding for the program, known as Proposal N...

Plans for Detroits largest incinerator would change east side neighborhood Detroit — Owners of a shuttered waste incinerator on the east side are in talks with the city over a plan to raze the facility as soon as this summer. Todd Grzech, CEO of Detroit Thermal, told The News on Wednesday that the company, which holds a 14-year lease of the city-owned site on Russell Street, is contemplating a plan to end the lease early, and as a component, embark on what he expects will be a two-year te...