The symptoms of a small, failing hospital are instantly recognizable: chronic empty beds, a beleaguered staff and a bottom line that bleeds red. But rather than closing the doors, is there a way to treat – and perhaps cure – these ailing facilities? One prescription that...
Worried your kid might turn out to be a lobbyist? Gabe Schneider, owner of Northern Strategies 360 in Traverse City, doesn’t share your concern. And he has two children of his own. “In fact, we need more lobbyists,” argued Schneider, the former regional representative for Senator...
As commerce moves increasingly online, the criminal class is also redirecting their malicious efforts toward the digital sphere. According to the “2015 Cost of Cyber Crime Study: United States” conducted by the Traverse City-based Ponemon Institute, the U.S. has seen an 82 percent increase in cyber...
The Traverse City region is best known as a resort community. That’s not surprising given its incredible annual swell of summer tourists and seasonal residents, and inclusion among a seemingly endless string of “must see” and “best of” lists popping up around the country in...
Options for senior care in northwest lower Michigan have grown dramatically in recent years – from specialized in-home care focused on keeping seniors independent to residential facilities that take a new approach to “senior living.” But here’s the rub: Nearly one-fifth of the U.S. population will...
In big news for businesses and investors, national investment crowdfunding has arrived at last. On October 31, 2015, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved rules for investment crowdfunding under the 2012 federal JOBS Act. Simply put, for the first time in recent memory,...
Members Credit Union in Traverse City and Bay Winds Federal Credit Union in Charlevoix were itching to expand. Members Credit Union was eyeing new business in the Petoskey area while Bay Winds wanted a presence in the booming Grand Traverse region. Each was allowed to march...
Less than two years after the ceremonial shovels hit the ground, the state-of-the-art Cowell Family Cancer Center is readying to welcome its first patients in Traverse City by mid-winter. A cancer center – with all diagnostic and treatment services in one location – had long been...
BEAUTY BAR OPENS Cosmetic Skin & Laser Center has announced the business launch and opening of Traverse Beauty Bar, a beauty and brow studio at the corner of East Front and Park streets in downtown Traverse City. This sister location provides brow sculpting and brow tinting, men’s...
APPOINTMENTS Bill Golden, co-president of Golden Shoes in downtown Traverse City, has been re-elected to the Michigan Retailers Services, Inc. (MRS) Board of Directors. He was first named to the board in 2012 and has been re-elected annually. MRS is the wholly owned subsidiary of Michigan...
