Changing Gears

The numbers from manufacturing are looking good, I reported last week.Bill Strauss from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago told me that of the 2.3…

Honda made history in 1990 when it introduced the high powered Acura NS-X sports car. But it discontinued it in 2005 to focus on more fuel efficient…

Just before you get to the factory floor of Chicago White Metal Casting, there’s a grainy, mural-sized picture of what the floor used to look like in the…

With a new year just days away we asked you to take stock of 2011. Michigan’s economy shows signs of improving, but times are still tough for many around…

The Amway Hotel. Van Andel Arena. The Grand Rapids Public Museum. What do all these things have in common? Yes, they're all credited with helping turn…

As 2011 comes to an end, we look back at some of the economic and housing stories we covered in the last year. The housing slide slowed in the last year,…

The time for year-end lists and reflections is upon us!By many measures 2011 has been a tough year around the state. The economy delivered another beating…

Update 5:05An administrative law judge will decide whether graduate students at the University of Michigan get the chance to try and form a union.The…

Of the 263 automotive plants closed across the country over the past three decades, nearly 49 percent have been repurposed, according to a Labor…

In a fight over mittens, the gloves have come off.Michigan and Wisconsin are tussling over which state can rightly lay claim to using mittens in their…