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If there’s one thing Michigan lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have mostly agreed on over decades, it’s handing out billions of dollars of tax breaks, cash and other incentives to businesses promising to create jobs. But now there’s growing bipartisan support for reigning in those incentives, which some lawmakers say are not producing […] The post Rick Haglund: SOAR incentives fund flying too high, some Dem and GOP lawmakers say appeared first on Michigan Advanc...

Which local realtors sold the most real estate in 2023? The popular “Top Realtors” issue of the Traverse City Business News is out...

Detroit’s Renaissance Center has long defined the city’s skyline, its image gracing the covers of countless promotional brochures and regularly shown on nationally televised sporting events in the Motor City. But despite sweeping views from its glass towers, the Ren Cen is arguably Detroit’s most unloved building. Navigating its collection of towers is like trying […] The post Rick Haglund: General Motors is moving out of Renaissance Center. Now what? appeared first o...

Donald Trump’s mob boss-style of campaigning was on full display during a recent Ohio campaign speech in which he said there would be a “bloodbath” if President Joe Biden is reelected. …

I’m sorry, but this column is about tax policy.  Bor-ing, right? Maybe so, but how state lawmakers design a tax structure can have a significant impact on the finances of residents and businesses, …

I’m having a case of déjà vu all over again, as the late New York Yankees Hall of Famer Yogi Berra probably never said. In the mid-1970s, Japanese automakers began flooding the United States with …

‘Are you kidding me?”

ACME — Grand Traverse Resort and Spa is now a can’t-miss feature in the Traverse City-area skyline, and former owner Paul Nine spurred many of the early projects that made

United Auto Workers union President Shawn Fain didn’t get the 40% raise his members were demanding at the Detroit Three automakers. He and his bargaining team didn’t win the 32-hour workweek the …

“If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you,” is Michigan’s long-held motto. But not enough people are seeking it. Michigan’s population has been stalled at around 10 million people for …