News for Southwest Michigan
January 14, 2013
Kalamazoo Democrat discusses issues such as education and road funding as new session begins
January 10, 2013
Gongwer Editor Zach Gorchow says more contentious issues, including road funding, lie ahead
January 8, 2013
West Michigan Congressman Fred Upton he would have preferred “a grand bargain” rather than the deal reached last week that averted the “fiscal cliff.” But Upton voted for the agreement.
January 8, 2013
The director of Grand Valley State University’s Supply Chain Management Program Brian Long finds economic indicators were down in the region, compared to November.
January 7, 2013
When he was running for governor, Rick Snyder had a ten-point plan to “Reinvent Michigan”. Point number five was: “Restoring cities and controlling urban sprawl”. Snyder came to the annual Michigan Farm Bureau dinner recently in Grand Rapids
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January 14, 2013
Governor says he would have preferred a broader ad about the state's business climate
January 14, 2013
Annual report on West Michigan health care system finds paying upfront for testing can generate long term savings
January 14, 2013
City officials say their own tree removal efforts can't keep up with the damage done by the Emerald Ash Borer
January 14, 2013
Broncos have lost four straight, including their first two Mid-American Conference games
January 14, 2013
Perry has been suspended since mid-December over what has been called an "inappropriate relationship" with a district employee
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May 20, 2013
Giuseppe Arcimboldo was a 16th-century artist who liked to play with his food, transforming it into the building blocks of many of his fantastical portraits. Artist Philip Haas has taken those portraits out of museums, reinterpreting them as colossal statues that interact with the natural environment.
May 20, 2013
The storied midfielder walked off the pitch as fans â and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy â chanted his name.
May 20, 2013
President Obama delivered a rare, very personal speech during the commencement ceremony at the historically black college.
May 20, 2013
Qusair is a strategically important town that lies between Homs, where the Syrian uprising began two years ago, and the Lebanese border. If President Bashar Assad's troops â reportedly backed by Hezbollah fighters â regain the town, they would control an important route from the coast to the capital, Damascus.
May 20, 2013
Don't mess with Soviet history, especially when it comes to World War II. That's the message coming from some hard-line Russian legislators who are angry with an opposition lawmaker who criticized Josef Stalin's World War II counterintelligence agency, SMERSH, and likened it to Adolf Hitler's Gestapo.
May 20, 2013
The deal for the blogging site is designed to attract younger users to the ailing Web portal. The Wall Street Journal is basing its report on unnamed sources close to the situation.
May 20, 2013
Police shot Andrea Rebello, 21, while they were trying to free her from a man holding her hostage.
May 20, 2013
White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said Republicans are trying to make political hay with the scandals.
May 20, 2013
Like the missiles on Saturday, the projectile missed neighboring countries. The U.S. called the launch "provocations."
May 20, 2013
College students and recent graduates crammed the top floor of a tech hub in Nairobi for a competition built around the theme "Solutions for the Next Billion Mobile Users." Africa has more than 600 million mobile phone users (approximately 11 percent of the global total) â and the number is growing.
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