One billion of anything is a big number in rural northern Michigan. But $1,026,722,416 was the 2019 dollar volume of homes sold in the five-county area, up from $392 million in 2011. That staggering s...
by Rick Haglund Michigan hospitals – including Munson Healthcare – will likely take a financial hit from a new auto insurance law that will replace the state’s 48-year-old no-fault insurance sys...
A cold and blustery day wreaked havoc on recruiters, who filed into the Hagerty Center carrying cumbersome displays and props for the 14th annual job fair hosted by Northwestern Michigan College in ea...
At Windemuller, hiring more women has become a priority in recent years. Windemuller is a Grand Rapids-headquartered construction company that specializes in electrical work, automation, information t...
We need to get creative. We are living through an incredibly stressful and unpredictable moment in history. The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has swept across the globe, causing a humanitarian crisis a...
I have spent most of my career in male-dominated fields, having graduated from engineering school at a time when only one out of every four women enrolled would earn a degree. When I entered the male-...
It’s been a month unlike any other. On March 16, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed Executive Order 2020-10, temporarily expanding unemployment benefits. On March 18, President Donald Trump signed the...
When it comes to building, it’s now easy being green. According to the United States Green Building Council, roughly 40% of the single-family house market is made up of green homes and 84% of ne...
Women represent between 15% and a third of the financial planners and advisors in the United States. While some studies show that more women are finding their way to the male-dominated field, others i...
In just a matter of days, our ability to move about the globe has been drastically changed. There’s a new normal of social distancing and staying at home. While we will miss our friends and fami...
