About a year ago, Real Estate One’s title insurance company almost lost $1 million from a wire transfer to East European hackers who concocted fake electronic closing documents in an attempt to steal the money. Fortunately, the scheme was exposed before the money disappeared. But hacking...
Bars, restaurants and hotels can allow customers to pour their own beer and wine under a new state rule. But several popular Traverse City area venues say they don’t intend to do so. The new state Liquor Control Commission rule allows establishments with on-premises liquor licenses...
In case you haven’t been paying attention, the next big thing is here. What started as wine country and has also become a haven for craft brewing is now developing a taste for cider. From Peninsula Cellars on Old Mission to Short’s in Bellaire to...
Long live Grand Traverse Bagel & Bakery. The business run by Claudia DeMarco and her late husband Bob Stevenson closed in late autumn 2015 following a fire in its oven. But as it turns out, it was only closed for a few months. That’s because restaurateurs...
Judged by the level of national recognition for Grand Traverse area’s vibrant food scene, it might seem that the restaurant, food truck and catering here is sated. That appears not to be the case, at least in the minds of many entrepreneurial-minded chefs who are...
Betsy Williams, a facilitator and training specialist at Northwestern Michigan College’s Training Services, likens business meetings to gold. “We have all these valuable resources in the same room,” she said. “We need to treat that meeting time very specially and carefully…with an effective agenda, the tools and...
In December, city commissioners unanimously passed a resolution to power Traverse City’s municipal operations via 100 percent renewable energy by 2020 and initiate a long-term plan to transition the entire city to be carbon neutral by 2050. That’s a big league move for our little city....
For as long as there have been automobiles, there has also been a need to get them from point A to point B. No one knows this more than Jesse DeGraeve, the owner of Double Time Transport, LLC, a long distance automobile transporting company based...
Nearly half a million dollars in state funding is fueling improvements in public transportation options for the region’s commuters. Coming soon: increased hours of operation for bus service, more dedicated/fixed routes, and more express services from point A to point B. On Oct. 1, BATA and...
By Michael Lewis Hardcover $28.95, E-read edition $16 Norton Press, 362 Pages Reviewed by Chris Wendel In a Nutshell: The story of an academic odd couple that shape and form the field of behavioral economics. Who’s it for? General audiences, anyone who has enjoyed Michael Lewis’ other books (“Moneyball," “The...
