Marinas remake themselves as floating resorts
Up and down the Detroit River, along Lake St. Clair and other Michigan lakes and waterways, marinas are adding amenities to become more than just boat docks.
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Up and down the Detroit River, along Lake St. Clair and other Michigan lakes and waterways, marinas are adding amenities to become more than just boat docks.
As the nation pauses this weekend to honor fallen service members, businesses and job organizations are stepping up to help former soldiers and sailors find civilian jobs that will help them merge back into mainstream America. The unemployment rate among America’s veterans of all ages was 6.2 percent in April, compared to 7.5 percent for America as a whole. Among Michigan’s 680,417 veterans — including 27,085 post 9/11 vets — unemployment is 7.9 percent, compared to 8.
Detroit — Dozens of city parks scheduled to be closed because of budget cuts will be ready for cookouts and baseball games Memorial Day thanks to the efforts of business sponsors and community volunteers.
U.S. Army engineer John A. James returned from a tour of duty in Vietnam in 1969 with high entrepreneurial aspirations.
Detroit — Detroit's Compuware Corp. is a finalist for an award given for employer support of Guard and Reserve employees.
The exodus from Detroit continues, the Census Bureau says, more feet-on-the-ground evidence that the city's chronic mismanagement is perpetuating a problem years in the making.
Richmond, Va. — Craft breweries from around the country are toasting the troops with a beer aged with a unique ingredient that symbolizes America's pastime — baseball bats.
Netflix is hoping this weekend's release of the resurrected TV series 'Arrested Development' will draw more subscribers to its Internet video service.
New York — The forecast for summer travel, 2013: Partly sunny.
Capitol Park, site of Michigan's first Capitol building and more recently where people wait for the bus, is a major front in the block-by-block battle to gentrify downtown.
Metro Detroit's mega-hospital merger may be dead, but the forces that pushed Beaumont Health Systems into the arms of its larger rival, Henry Ford, are very much alive.
Washington — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell by 23,000 last week, further evidence that the job market is slowly returning to health.
— Few have explored the remote volcanic islands of the Galapagos archipelago, an otherworldly landscape inhabited by the world's largest tortoises and other fantastical creatures that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
Kaiba Gionfriddo is a healthy toddler, thanks to a groundbreaking procedure at the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital. Doctors there used 3-D technology to create a bio-absorbable scaffold to hold Kaiba's bronchus open until it grows strong enough to stay open on its own.
President Barack Obama's pick to head the Transportation Department vowed to keep up the government's fight against distracted driving.
Biggsville, Ill. — Clark Kelly plans to spend a lot of time on the links this spring. The Illinois farmer is plowing the Hend-Co-Hills Golf Course near tiny ...
Lansing — A Senate committee approved legislation Thursday significantly shortening the redemption period for homeowners in foreclosure.
ACO Home, Garden & Hardware, Michigan's largest independent hardware retailer, will close 14 stores in the state, half of them in Metro Detroit.
The Cheesecake Factory has set an opening date for its location at the Twelve Oaks Mall.
Two of the region’s largest health care systems, Henry Ford and Beaumont, have scrapped plans for a merger that would have created a 10-hospital system serving ...
Books-A-Million, one of the nation's leading book retailers, has opened two stores in southeast Michigan in recent months and plans an aggressive search for ...
Auburn Hills-based Reliance One is hiring 400 test drivers to meet a growing demand from local automotive companies.
It's going to be another busy Memorial Day weekend on the nation's highways.
Washington — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes ticked up last month to the highest level in three and a half years, helped by a jump in the number of ...
Washington — Chairman Ben Bernanke is telling Congress Wednesday that the U.S. job market remains weak and that it is too soon for the Federal Reserve to end ...
CEO pay has been going one direction for the past three years: up.
The historic former United Way building in downtown's Capitol Park district received a $6 million loan Wednesday from the state of Michigan's Strategic Fund.
More investors are getting serious about deflating corporate chiefs' ballooning pay.
After vowing the event would go on, Danialle Karmanos has canceled a June 8 white-tie gala honoring her husband, retired Compuware founder Pete Karmanos, in ...
With a grand opening scheduled for late July, developers of Detroit's Gateway Marketplace shopping center say they hope it will serve as the pinnacle of the ...
The exodus from Detroit continues, the Census Bureau says, more feet-on-the-ground evidence that the city's chronic mismanagement is perpetuating a problem years in the making. - 05/24/2013
It's one of the most important numbers influencing life as we know it, and I don't mean your ZIP code, dress size or how much you spent on Mother's Day gifts for your wife. - 05/20/2013
Daniel Howes Now, after Gov. Rick Snyder pulled the Belle Isle lease deal over City Council’s inaction? Now, after Mayor Dave Bing said he would be forced to close 50 city parks...
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